“When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal?”

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.