Scott Pruitt Quotes

There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.

EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

Let's shut down the EPA.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

Every day, the hard-working men and women of Alabama's Department of Environmental Management are on the ground, protecting Alabama's rivers and lakes in a way that is beneficial to all. EPA should support them in that work, not make it more difficult.

And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.