Statewide Iowa (RI) — Republican Senator Joni Ernst is calling for a senate hearing “on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s scandals.”
Ernst says she appreciates “some” of the regulatory changes Pruitt has made.
Pruitt served as attorney general in oil-rich Oklahoma, and Ernst says he has repeatedly failed to follow through on the president’s promises on the federal ethanol production mandate. Ernst opposes the so-called “hardship” waivers Pruitt recently has granted, exempting oil refineries from the federal requirement to blend ethanol into gasoline.
According to Ernst, Pruitt “is about as swampy” as it gets.
The Washington Post reported Pruitt asked EPA staff and political donors to find his wife a job. That prompted Republicans like Ernst to call on Pruitt to testify before the senate about those actions, as well as his lavish office spending, first-class travel and private security, paid for by taxpayers.
