Thousands of newly released emails show Pruitt \u2014 while he was Oklahoma\u2019s Attorney General \u2014 collaborating with the oil and natural gas industry to cripple the EPA\u2019s authority. It\u2019s not surprising, but it was a disgusting abuse of his power as Oklahoma Attorney General and representative of a serious conflict of interest.<\/p>\n
The damaging information in these emails are coming to light just as we learn that Donald Trump is preparing to sign new executive orders \u2014 as soon as this week \u2014 to gut President Obama\u2019s Clean Power Plan and Clean Water Rule.<\/p>\n
We know that our planet cannot afford any delays in fighting climate change, and that every single person, regardless of race, age, zip code or income, deserves access to clean, safe water.<\/p>\n
The Clean Power Plan is our nation\u2019s biggest step ever in the fight to reduce carbon pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.<\/p>\n
The Clean Water Rule clarifies pollution protections for our drinking water. Without it, water for 1 in 3 people in this country is at risk.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s installation of a fossil fuel shill like Pruitt and these new executive orders make it crystal clear that Donald Trump is putting the interests of Big Polluters over the air we breathe and water we drink.<\/p>\n
These executive orders are just the start of sweeping attacks designed to drastically diminish the EPA and the work they do to protect our health and the environment. And we MUST call on Congress to investigate Pruitt\u2019s ties to polluters. It is up to ordinary citizens to be the resistance \u2014 it is up to us to secure a better planet for future generations. Are you in? \u00a0Are YOU doing ALL you can do?<\/p>\n
NORTONSPEAKS will keep fighting Trump, Pruitt, and their extreme Republican allies in Congress who try to roll back vital environmental and health protections every single day, but we can only do it with your help. \u00a0Make your pen mightier than the sword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of newly released emails show Pruitt \u2014 while he was Oklahoma\u2019s Attorney General \u2014 collaborating with the oil and natural gas industry to cripple the EPA\u2019s authority. It\u2019s not surprising, but it was a disgusting abuse of his power as Oklahoma Attorney General and representative of a serious conflict of interest. The damaging information…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[54,33,63,30],"class_list":["entry","author-larrynorton","post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-government","tag-corrupt-trump","tag-politics","tag-pruit","tag-republicans","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bppg-56","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}