"Trump EPA Head Pushed Agents To Speed, Run Sirens"

"Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt prodded his security agents to drive recklessly and turn on emergency lights and sirens to maneuver around traffic in the nation’s capital.

Interviews with agents who served on Pruitt’s security detail describe President Donald Trump’s first EPA head as habitually late for meetings and feeling entitled to use his motorcade to zoom around other cars, according to a newly released report.

The report — drafted by an agent in EPA’s Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, which oversees the administrator’s security detail, about a month before Pruitt resigned from the agency in 2018 — documents the frequent use of lights and sirens by Pruitt’s motorcade, egged on by the then-administrator himself."

Kevin Bogardus reports for E&E News May 27, 2022.

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Source: E&E News, 06/01/2022