Scott Pruitt Quotes

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

We have done extraordinary things to destroy our waters. We can never do enough to research and coordinate cleaning these waters up.

The people of West Virginia deserve jobs. But the people of West Virginia also deserve clean water.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

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

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.

I'm going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.

We need to put a priority on environment, health, and safety protections.

I think the health of our water is tied to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our economy, the health of our basic human rights.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.

The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.

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

Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.

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.