Pruitt: Endangerment finding the law of the land and must be respected

摘要

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said during his Jan. 18 confirmation hearing that the U.S. EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a threat to human health and welfare and therefore need to be regulated is the law of the land and “must be respected.” Some critics of Pruitt’s nomination to become the next administrator of the EPA have worried that his participation in litigation against the endangerment finding may suggest Pruitt could roll back that ruling if he becomes the administrator of the agency. But Pruitt told Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., that the endangerment finding “is there and needs to be enforced.”