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He lavishly decked out his office on the taxpayer dime, installing a$43,000 private phone booth, placingbiometric lockson his office doors for $5,700 and spending over$1,500 on fountain pens and more than $1,600 on journals from an upscale Washington shop.

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In December, he sat courtsideat a University of Kentucky basketball game as the guest of Joseph W. Craft III, a billionaire coal executive who aggressively lobbied to reverse Obama era environmental rules.

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Pruitt also sued the EPA over its 2015 regulation strengthening the national health standards for ground level ozone Canada Goose Outlet or smog pollution.

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American should be appalled that President elect Trump just picked someone who has made a career of being a vocal defender for polluters to head our Environmental Protection Agency, Trip Van Noppen, president of Earthjustice, said in a December 2016 statement. has fought Environmental Protection Agency pollution limits on toxic substances like soot and mercury that put us all at risk for increased cancer, childhood asthma and other health problems. He falsely claims that fracking doesn contaminate drinking water supplies.