Environmental Protection Agency chief and climate skeptic Scott Pruitt , who just months ago was widely rumored tobe under considerationfor a shift to the totally dissimilar part of attorney general , has seen his palace intrigue problems mount as more reports of wasteful conduct come forth .
Here ’s the latest , per the Washington Post . Not only did Pruitt wheel upover $ 163,000 in first - class , charter , and military flights ( not number staff costs ) in his first year alone under the dubious excuse that he necessitate significantly more security system than anterior EPA administrator , he allegedly eyed leasing his own private jet using taxpayer investment trust . consort to the Post , current and former official — albeit ones talking anonymously — say that renting out a jet for his exclusive use would have cost about $ 100,000 a month :
The official , who speak on the precondition of anonymity to discuss interior deliberations , said the agency ultimately did not move frontward with the programme because it would have been prohibitively expensive . Pruitt ’s aides had contacted NetJets , a well - be intimate firm that leases such planes , and received a cost estimate of roughly $ 100,000 a month , the officials said .
The idea was promptly scuttled after some top consultant objected , accord to these individuals . adjutant were discourse the musical arrangement before Tom Price resign as secretary of health and human services amid revelations about dear flights he had taken aboard chartered plane .
( One might also note that emissions - ptyalize private jets havelong been a targetof Conservative attend to discredit loaded climate advocates like Al Gore , but whatever . )
Though an EPA spokesperson characterized the matter to the Post as merely one of many routine ingathering considered by agency official , this looks rather bad . President Donald Trump ’s administration saw Health and Human Services chief Tom Price resign last yearover like allegationshe handed taxpayer the bank note for unduly ritzy flight . Pruitt is train even more heating plant from disjoined charge that he strike a sweetheart letting dealfrom a fossil - fuel lobbyist , as well as reports of other expensive and somewhat bizarresecurity measures .
Whether all of this combined could put in movement Pruitt ’s metaphoric defenestration from the Union government is undecipherable . Reports have diversely suggest that the White House is growingfrustrated with Pruittover the ongoing bad news , or that the presidentjust does n’t carebecause the EPA chief has been diligently hold out the presidency ’s order of business .
Pruitt clearly has acozy relationshipwith lobbyist for industries ordinarily relate with environmental disasters rather than environmental protection , consistently muddlesthescientific evidenceon climate change , and he ’s blithely pose his sights on axing large turn of the agency’sscientistsandstaff . The president believes cold weather proves the world ’s climate skill residential area isjust a bunch of hoaxers , though , so these are probable all point in Pruitt ’s corner .
[ Washington Post ]
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