EPA Administrator Under George W. Bush: Pruitt Is Unfit For The Job

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Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under former President George W. Bush, said Thursday that current EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethical breaches and undermining of department morale make him unfit for office.

“You can’t just get up one day and decide that something which was deemed by scientists to be a problem for human health and the environment all of a sudden isn’t anymore,” she said on CNN. 

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  1. From one bad EPA Administrator to an awful one. :-/

  2. Ah, those were the days when Christine Todd Whitman was the worst thing to come out of New Jersey!

  3. “You can’t just get up one day and decide that something which was deemed by scientists to be a problem for human health and the environment all of a sudden isn’t anymore,” she said on CNN.

    Oh yeah? Says who? Seems to me you can.
    
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