Senators Receive "Pruitt Survival Kits" at the U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON, DC - Clean air and water advocates are delivered “Pruitt Survival Kits” to members of the United States Senate today.

Each “Pruitt Survival Kit” included one bottle of clean water and one high-quality face mask to protect Senators from air pollution.

Both will need to last for at least four years if Scott Pruitt is ultimately confirmed to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an office for which he is spectacularly unfit.

Clean air, clean water and climate advocates across the country have been outraged by Trump’s selection of Pruitt, who is notorious for attempting to undermine national safeguards against Mercury pollution; eliminating the environmental enforcement office he oversaw in his state as Attorney General; copy-pasting an oil and gas industry letter he actually sent to the White House; and leading the assault on virtually every major new protection for families and public health advanced by the EPA since he has been in office.

“If Scott Pruitt seizes the Environmental Protection Agency, he’ll try and implement an agenda that would threaten the air and water of every American family. The EPA was designed to protect clean water and clean air, but Pruitt has already proven that his loyalty is to the oil, gas and coal industries and their profits” said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. “From fighting important protections against mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin, to shutting down his own environmental enforcement unit in Oklahoma, Pruitt has shown his cards time and time again, and now it’s time for Senators to show theirs. Pruitt is totally unfit to serve in any capacity at the EPA, let alone lead it.”

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