Abstract
Dogged by scandal, the first EPA chief of the Trump administration, Scott Pruitt, has resigned. But his work to loosen the agency’s regulatory grip on industry will likely advance. Pruitt resigned effective July 6 amid more than a dozen federal investigations into alleged ethical lapses, his lavish spending of taxpayer money, and controversial policies he put in place during his roughly 16 months at EPA. Among them is a probe by congressional investigators into Pruitt’s change in the makeup of EPA’s outside science advisory groups. Pruitt dropped many academic researchers and replaced them with representatives from industry and state regulatory agencies. In his resignation letter, Pruitt writes that “the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.” Leading the agency since February 2017, Pruitt acted steadily to implement President Donald J. Trump’s directive to slash “unnecessary and burdensome” regulations.
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