The American people and Mainers specifically deserve better than Scott Pruitt. Pruitt’s tenure as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator has been an unmitigated disaster for our people. He’s spent more than $150,000 of taxpayer dollars on luxury travel, exploited the Safe Drinking Water Act to give personal friends extraordinary raises, and secured a sweetheart deal to stay in a luxury D.C. condo co-owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist for $50 per night.

As though this isn’t bad enough, Pruitt’s been rolling back life-saving regulations to benefit his dirty energy benefactors. And while his political defenders may boast about his “effectiveness,” the reality is that our courts have handed him several embarrassing defeats and restrained his efforts to allow more pollution in our air and water.

For a party based on their belief in fiscal conservancy such as the Republicans, this cannot go unnoticed or unpunished. Pruitt’s actions are in direct contradiction with what the EPA stands for. Americans have been lied to and Scott Pruitt needs to resign so that we can have a competent EPA leader who takes a stand for Maine’s all important wilderness and eco-tourism.

Neshamah Stearns

Unity


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