"Pruitt Taps Conservative News Outlets To Assail His Critics"

"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt pushed back on ethics allegations swirling around his rent of a lobbyist-linked condo last year.

In interviews with conservative-leaning news outlets, the EPA chief said he was being targeted for his success in implementing President Trump's agenda of rolling back environmental regulations after the first news reports of his use of a Capitol Hill apartment co-owned by the wife of a lobbyist whose firm's clients have business before EPA (Greenwire, April 2).

Pruitt said his critics dislike his policies and are desperate to stop him any way possible.

"There are people that have long in this town done business a different way and this agency has been the poster child of it. And so do I think that because we are leading on this agenda that there are some who want to keep that from happening? Absolutely. And do I think that they will resort to anything to achieve that? Yes," Pruitt told the Washington Examiner."

Kevin Bogardus reports for Greenwire April 4, 2018.

SEE ALSO:

"This Fox News Interview Was Surprisingly Tough on Scott Pruitt" (Vox)

"Dogged By Scandal, EPA's Pruitt Turns To Damage Control" (NPR)

"Under Fire For Scandals, EPA Head Scott Pruitt Again Turns To Right-Wing Media" (Media Matters)

"Pruitt ‘Dumbfounded’ That Renting Condo Linked To Top Lobbyist Is Controversial" (The Hill)