“There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution.”

American attorney, lobbyist and Republican politician, born 1968

Edward Scott Pruitt is an American attorney, lobbyist, and Republican politician from Oklahoma. Born in 1968, he is best known for serving as the 14th administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2017 to 2018, during Donald Trump’s presidency. Pruitt’s public profile is tied to conservative politics and environmental policy. He has been a prominent skeptic of the scientific consensus on climate change, and he resigned from the EPA while facing multiple federal investigations.