Scott Pruitt is finally gone, and this was the antic scene outside the EPA
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Its a good day for the agency, said the employee, choosing his words carefully and, like others, declining to give his name because Washington propriety still persists. A look at the scene outside the EPA on Thursday. from @MrDanZak
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Scott Pruitt is finally gone, and this was the antic scene outside the EPA
By Dan Zak July 6 at 10:02 AM [link:daniel.zak@washpost.com|Email the author]
Lukas Ross of Friends of the Earth wears a papier-mache Scott Pruitt mask outside the EPA on Thursday afternoon. (Dan Zak/The Washington Post)
It was Gods blessings that brought him to us, according to Scott Pruitts resignation letter, and so it must be Gods blessings that are taking him away. His exit certainly was a deliverance for some EPA employees leaving work Thursday, shortly after the news broke. ... I am happy, said one 15-year veteran headed out of 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW around 5:30 p.m. He was never accepted. If you are going to be the environment chief, the environment has to be your passion.
Otherwise, the employee said, the green will get you the green meaning planet-loving civil servants as well as outside environmental activists. They tortured him until he submitted, he added. They found stuff on him until he submitted. ... Boy, did they find stuff: the lotion errands, the tactical pants, the $43,000 soundproof booth, the courtside sports tickets from coal barons, the claim that flying coach endangered Pruitts life, the attempt to procure a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife.
The reaction in the EPAs headquarters underpopulated because its a holiday week was one of surprise and relief, according to another employee, in a light-blue dress shirt and plaid tie. ... Its a good day for the agency, said the employee, choosing his words carefully and, like others, declining to give his name because Washington propriety still persists in some ways. He was destroying the agen well, he was not a friend of the environment, and I dont think he was a friend of the agency. A pause. A search for other words. But the first ones fit, so he repeated them: Its a good day.
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Ross, the mask off briefly, cautioned that the celebration should be followed by vigilance. The only person more dangerous than Scott Pruitt, he said, is Andrew Wheeler who is now acting EPA administrator until Trump names a replacement and who once worked for climate-change denier Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.). ... Added Ross: We look forward to making a mask of Wheeler.
Dan Zak is a reporter for The Washington Post. He writes a wide range of news stories, narratives and profiles from local, national and foreign assignments. He joined The Post in 2005. Follow
elleng
(130,126 posts)and I may return to downtown DC's 'Federal Triangle', pictured here, where I worked for 20+ years.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,873 posts)Right around Christmas -- I mean, near the end of December -- I walk over to look at the lobby of the Willard Hotel. I go from there to the Ellipse to look at the National Christmas tree. The closest Metro stop is Federal Triangle.
The rest of the year -- never.
elleng
(130,126 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Glad I don't have to right now!
elleng
(130,126 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)However, I am worried about what will replace him. As you have noticed every time someone leaves the trump sewer someone worse comes in.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)It must have been HELL for those who were somehow able to remain as they watched Pruitt destroy the planet while profiting from it. Ding dong, the witch is dead. Here comes the new/next witch appointed by tRump who wants to destroy the planet do he can personally becomes even more wealthy These greedy sociopaths will sell their grandmother for 5 cents. Sick, sick fuckers.
dreamland
(964 posts)He shouldn't be allowed to take any of the stuff he purchased while in office. Who's going to inventory those $3000 pens? And the $10K worth of office decor? He's raided the EPA piggy bank and now it's time for the next one? It's a total scam.