Nationwide Campaign to “Boot Pruitt” Launched by Leading Environmental and Progressive Organizations

Tulsa, OK — Today, Sierra Club, Hip Hop Caucus, Friends of the Earth, Green For All, Green Latinos, Defend Our Future, League of Conservation of Voters, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Center for American Progress Action launched a nationwide campaign to “Boot Pruitt”. The coordinated effort aims to force Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, from office. The Sierra Club will promote a national TV ad on Facebook in Oklahoma City and Tulsa that calls for Trump to boot Pruitt. The ad will be accompanied by a petition calling for Pruitt to resign.

“Previously, as Oklahoma's Attorney General, Scott Pruitt took numerous first class flights on the taxpayer's dime while dismantling the state’s environmental protection unit in  the AG’s office that was working to keep Arkansas poultry pollution out of Oklahoma rivers," said Johnson Bridgewater, Director of the Oklahoma Sierra Club chapter.  "It’s no surprise that Pruitt’s habits haven’t changed -- he’s treating the health and safety of our nation and federal tax dollars just as carelessly as he treated the health and safety and taxpayers of Oklahoma. It’s time for Pruitt to resign or be thrown out of office.”

Scott Pruitt has been caught in a series of scandals, including lavishly spending taxpayer dollars on  $105,000 in undisclosed first-class flights, $120,000 on a trip to Italy, $36,068 on a chartered flight, upwards of $43,000 on a phone booth, $2 million on 24 hour security detail, incurring costly expenses for personal trips to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl, and even spending $120,000 to hire a Republican political consulting firm whose VP dug up dirt on EPA employees. He is now under a series of Inspector General and Congressional investigations for his abuses.

“Scott Pruitt is unfit to head the Environmental Protection Agency,” said Marilyn McCulloch, Secretary of the Carrie Dickerson Foundation. “In both Oklahoma and Washington, D.C., Scott Pruitt’s actions to protect polluters instead of people have made clear over and over again that he isn’t a public servant working for the health and safety of our communities -- he’s working only for himself.”