There’s a lot of things you can do with EPA employees if you’re intent on not actually enforcing any environmental laws. For Scott Pruitt—plaintiff in at least eight active lawsuits against the agency he’s also running, and America’s top climate change denier—the best use of the agency is promoting Scott Pruitt.
The agency's work on climate and energy policy has slowed to a crawl, but it has been replaced with a different focus: the promotion of the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt. With one exception, all of the EPA's tweets and Facebook posts since Pruitt's confirmation have been about his various appearances or sharing quotes from the EPA chief or President Donald Trump. The only time the EPA tweeted about an environmental issue, it was to promote Trump's executive order attempting to roll back a Clean Water Act rule. (On Monday, outside of the three-week period we used for this analysis, the EPA finally tweeted about a local grant.)
The Trump regime has big plans to reduce the size of the EPA and to cripple its ability to enforce existing law. But there’s no reason to wait. Pruitt has already turned the agency into a Pruitt-megaphone whose primary responsibility is praising the leader.
The EPA hasn't mentioned climate change once since Trump became president.