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Davenport writes: "Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency have been calling their senators to urge them to vote on Friday against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt, President Trump's contentious nominee to run the agency, a remarkable display of activism and defiance that presages turbulent times ahead for the E.P.A."

Scott Pruitt at his confirmation hearing last month to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)
Scott Pruitt at his confirmation hearing last month to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)


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EPA Workers Try to Block Pruitt in Show of Defiance

By Coral Davenport, The New York Times

17 February 17

 

mployees of the Environmental Protection Agency have been calling their senators to urge them to vote on Friday against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s contentious nominee to run the agency, a remarkable display of activism and defiance that presages turbulent times ahead for the E.P.A.

Many of the scientists, environmental lawyers and policy experts who work in E.P.A. offices around the country say the calls are a last resort for workers who fear a nominee selected to run an agency he has made a career out of fighting — by a president who has vowed to “get rid of” it.

“Mr. Pruitt’s background speaks for itself, and it comes on top of what the president wants to do to E.P.A.,” said John O’Grady, a biochemist at the agency since the first Bush administration and president of the union representing the E.P.A.’s 15,000 employees nationwide.


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