WIKIMEDIA, GAGE SKIDMOREScott Pruitt, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, is under growing pressure to resign amid snowballing allegations of ethical misconduct. The latest criticisms follow a report by The Washington Post earlier this week that exposed Pruitt’s efforts to use his position to line up job opportunities for his wife.
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK.), once Pruitt’s political ally, was particularly critical in a conversation with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday (June 13), Vox reports. Inhofe noted that the EPA’s deputy administrator, Andrew Wheeler, was well qualified to take over the top post. Speaking of Pruitt's role, “I think something needs to happen to change that, and one of those alternatives is for [Pruitt] to leave that job,” he said. Ingraham herself has called on Pruitt to resign.
According to Reuters, Inhofe and several other Republican senators yesterday called for Pruitt to testify before Congress. Various government offices are undertaking a dozen investigations into the administrator’s behavior.
Also on Wednesday, conservative magazine National Review published an editorial entitled “Scott Pruitt Should Go.” In the ...
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