If anyone happens to have Scott Pruitt’s phone number (or his personal email address, which he definitely used for government business), please tell him to go get his stuff from the EPA offices. No one there wants a reminder of his dirty legacy.
We’re not talking about all the terrible policies and personnel he left Wheeler in charge of. No, we’re literally talking about Pruitt’s possessions. E&E reported last week that there are still a dozen boxes of Scott Pruitt’s personal shit at the EPA.
But apparently in his hurry to run away from a teacher carrying her child politely asking him to stop with the whole “let polluters kill people” agenda and escape to Hawaii and coal conferences, Pruitt forgot all his personal belongings in the EPA’s office. (Or maybe he’s just waiting to have the boxes shipped straight to his next gig at a coal company.)
E&E reported that there are a bunch of boxes still left, as well as some frames Pruitt hung up. Although it was really only a lesser scandal, remember that Pruitt spent nearly twice what was legally allowed on decorating his office. These framed pictures, now stuck in some EPA closet, are probably some of the pieces he (we) paid $2,500 to frame or $1,950 to move. And now they sit gathering dust. What a great uses of taxpayer resources (something Pruitt claimed to care so much about).
E&E didn’t report what’s in the boxes, so we have no way of knowing how many of them are filled with fancy hotel lotions, or if there’s a used Trump mattress floating around somewhere in agency headquarters.
And who can forget the $1,560 Pruitt spent on a twelve-pack of fancy pens? Are some of those left in the boxes? Maybe some of the boxes still have Scott “fancy little snack boy” Pruitt’s favorite treats in them--protein bars and cookies?
Maybe it’s not just Pruitt being lazy and inconsiderate about leaving his shit lying around. Maybe the EPA is keeping his old boxes as evidence for future investigations if the Dems win control in the midterms and Congress actually starts performing its federal oversight duties.
Either way, hopefully there’s none of Pruitt’s favorite Greek yogurt left in those boxes.
By now it’s got to be almost as rotten as Pruitt.
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