Pruitt is accused of declining to exercise the mandate of EPA in various ways, and discarding results and recommendations from staff scientists. In context, he

Pruitt is accused of declining to exercise the mandate of EPA in various ways, and discarding results and recommendations from staff scientists. In context, he was appointed to administer EPA by an executive that is issuing orders to modify science based recommendations by fiat. A cursory search in this area returns a variety of examples. --canceled tracking requirements for fossil-fuel related methane emissions[1] --overruled the internal recommendation to ban chlorpyrifos[2] --sought to delay various reports and standards[3][4] –proposed “transparency” rules to disallow the use of anonymized human health data[5] --worked to remove climate assumptions from agency recommendations, e.g. for flood risk[6] --ordering downward revision of environmental cost assumptions[7] [1] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032017/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency-methane-greenhouse-gas-climate-change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032017/scott-pruitt-env... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/epa-insecticide-chlorpyrifos.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/epa-insectici... [3] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interf7ered-with-science-study-536950 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house... [4] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/8-1-17_state_of_ny_v_us_epa.pdf https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/8-1-17_state_of_ny_v_u... [5] https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucs-documents/science-and-democracy/secret-science-letter-4-23-2018.pdf https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucs-documents/science-and-democracy... [6] https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/executive-order-establishing-federal-flood-risk-management-standard-and- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0... [7] https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-trump-administration-distorts-analysis-of-key-environmental-rules https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-trump-administration-...