The nomination has been withdrawn and the committee has shifted its focus to other candidates. We have finalized our correspondence with the ethics office to ensure this appointment does not move forward in any capacity. Our monitoring of environmental policy oversight continues.
December 21, 2016
Final supporters
Congress: Reject Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator
This is an aggressively bad choice, a poke in the eye to a long history of bipartisan cooperation on environmental issues, to a nation that has come to depend on the agency for healthy air and drinkable water, and to 195 countries that agreed in Paris last year to reduce their emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases in the belief that the United States would show the way -- New York Times Editorial, December 8, 2016
With the appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt — a climate change denier, close friend of the fossil fuel industry and opponent of the Clean Power Plan — to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President-Elect Trump has continued to show that we will have major struggles ahead to tackle the planetary crisis of climate change.
With 195 nations in Paris last year agreeing to cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming and work to protect God’s creation, the world took a major step forward to seriously address climate change. Through a variety of ways, individuals and communities of faith are acting to reduce our carbon footprint.
Many businesses and other institutions are working to reduce their emissions thus transforming the very way we live and work in our country. Americans overwhelmingly support clean renewable energy like solar and wind, which not only cut pollution but create many fold the number of jobs in fossil fuel industries.
But we need the government of the people to act as well. Appointing climate-deniers far outside the mainstream of scientific consensus to run the EPA will not get us there. Rolling back common sense clean air standards that are saving lives and creating jobs will not do it, either.
We call upon you, our elected leaders to reject climate change denial and enact policies that will hasten the transformation of the world’s economy to one powered by clean, renewable sources of energy. From our faith perspective, this is a moral, ethical and spiritual matter, one that we take with the utmost seriousness – it is the mandate of generational justice, preserving and handing over a viable, live-able Earth for future generations of human and other than human life.
We stand with all people of goodwill in our work to address climate change and it’s closely connected impacts on human justice, poverty, peace and a flourishing community of life. We urge you, our elected leaders to do just that – lead our nation in this critical work by emphatically rejecting the appointment of Scott Pruitt as our next EPA Administrator.
Sponsored the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 14, 2016
December 11, 2016
We have reached one hundred signatures. I am currently finalizing a formal letter to deliver these names to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Reached 100 supporters
December 9, 2016
122 Comments
I was appalled to hear of this nomination! We need someone who respects science and will help preserve our planet. To undo the Paris Peace Accord is frightening. It was such hard work to get so many countries to agree to work together to fight global warming. Please deny his appointment.
President-elect Trump's proposed administrators consistently lack even the most basic of mindsets, skills, or experiences to serve in their functions. This is a prime example. The person to be charged with protecting the environment does not admit to its greatest threats.
As a mother and teacher, I demand that we have a director of the EPA who listens to the vast majority of climate scientists and who makes environmental protection and climate change mitigation his top priority!
I and my children and grandchildren do not want to breathe in soot and eat fish with mercury in them. A clean, healthy environment is good for people and business in the long term.
Putting someone who doesn't accept settled science in charge of the EPA is ridiculous. Pruitt is clearly bought by the fossil fuel industry. Anyone who runs the Environmental Protection Agency should be committed to actually protecting the environment!
Just like the entire Trump administration, this guy is a disgrace to America and MUST go.
There should be a competence test given to Cabinet members to insure they have a grasp of they assignment and reality.
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The nomination has been withdrawn and the committee has shifted its focus to other candidates. We have finalized our correspondence with the ethics office to ensure this appointment does not move forward in any capacity. Our monitoring of environmental policy oversight continues.
December 21, 2016
Final supporters
Congress: Reject Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator
This is an aggressively bad choice, a poke in the eye to a long history of bipartisan cooperation on environmental issues, to a nation that has come to depend on the agency for healthy air and drinkable water, and to 195 countries that agreed in Paris last year to reduce their emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases in the belief that the United States would show the way -- New York Times Editorial, December 8, 2016
With the appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt — a climate change denier, close friend of the fossil fuel industry and opponent of the Clean Power Plan — to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President-Elect Trump has continued to show that we will have major struggles ahead to tackle the planetary crisis of climate change.
With 195 nations in Paris last year agreeing to cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming and work to protect God’s creation, the world took a major step forward to seriously address climate change. Through a variety of ways, individuals and communities of faith are acting to reduce our carbon footprint.
Many businesses and other institutions are working to reduce their emissions thus transforming the very way we live and work in our country. Americans overwhelmingly support clean renewable energy like solar and wind, which not only cut pollution but create many fold the number of jobs in fossil fuel industries.
But we need the government of the people to act as well. Appointing climate-deniers far outside the mainstream of scientific consensus to run the EPA will not get us there. Rolling back common sense clean air standards that are saving lives and creating jobs will not do it, either.
We call upon you, our elected leaders to reject climate change denial and enact policies that will hasten the transformation of the world’s economy to one powered by clean, renewable sources of energy. From our faith perspective, this is a moral, ethical and spiritual matter, one that we take with the utmost seriousness – it is the mandate of generational justice, preserving and handing over a viable, live-able Earth for future generations of human and other than human life.
We stand with all people of goodwill in our work to address climate change and it’s closely connected impacts on human justice, poverty, peace and a flourishing community of life. We urge you, our elected leaders to do just that – lead our nation in this critical work by emphatically rejecting the appointment of Scott Pruitt as our next EPA Administrator.
Sponsored the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 14, 2016
December 11, 2016
We have reached one hundred signatures. I am currently finalizing a formal letter to deliver these names to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Reached 100 supporters
December 9, 2016
122 Comments
The EPA is designed to protect our environement and the health of citizens. It is morally wrong to present someone who denies the value of this office and who would even consider shutting down this essential institution for the health of citizens. Please withdraw this person who is not suited for the job. Thank you.
I was appalled to hear of this nomination! We need someone who respects science and will help preserve our planet. To undo the Paris Peace Accord is frightening. It was such hard work to get so many countries to agree to work together to fight global warming. Please deny his appointment.
President-elect Trump's proposed administrators consistently lack even the most basic of mindsets, skills, or experiences to serve in their functions. This is a prime example. The person to be charged with protecting the environment does not admit to its greatest threats.
As a mother and teacher, I demand that we have a director of the EPA who listens to the vast majority of climate scientists and who makes environmental protection and climate change mitigation his top priority!
I and my children and grandchildren do not want to breathe in soot and eat fish with mercury in them. A clean, healthy environment is good for people and business in the long term.
Putting someone who doesn't accept settled science in charge of the EPA is ridiculous. Pruitt is clearly bought by the fossil fuel industry. Anyone who runs the Environmental Protection Agency should be committed to actually protecting the environment!
Just like the entire Trump administration, this guy is a disgrace to America and MUST go.
There should be a competence test given to Cabinet members to insure they have a grasp of they assignment and reality.
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The EPA is designed to protect our environement and the health of citizens. It is morally wrong to present someone who denies the value of this office and who would even consider shutting down this essential institution for the health of citizens. Please withdraw this person who is not suited for the job. Thank you.