Pruitt tried to justify the fact that he’s extremely close with the fossil fuel industry by claiming these relationships “will ultimately make the air cleaner and the water safer to drink,” the Sierra Club said in a statement Friday. In the statement, the environmental group contends “the worst EPA administrator ever would like you to believe he’s an environmentalist.”
“Scott Pruitt is an environmental steward in the same way the Marlboro Man is fighting lung cancer. Pruitt’s obvious disconnect from reality is dangerous to your health, and his systematic destruction of our clean air and water laws is one of the biggest crises in our federal government today,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in the statement.