Pruitt, among the nation’s most vehement critics of the EPA and Obama administration climate and environmental policies, has forcefully opposed federal mandates for power plant pollution controls and cutting carbon emissions to curb Americans’ impact on the climate.
Writing in a National Review column in May, Pruitt and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange falsely stated that scientists disagree about the “degree and extent of global warming and its connections to the actions of mankind.”
“That debate should be encouraged — in classrooms, public forums and the halls of Congress,” Pruitt and Strange wrote. “It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is not a crime.”
To scientists — and most nations around the world — the science of climate change is clear, however: Human carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are warming the climate at a rate unprecedented in human history, leading to extreme weather, rising seas, melting polar ice caps and innumerable other consequences.
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