You too can watch EPA Chief Scott Pruitt propose a rule limiting the scientific studies the agency can use to develop and justify regulations: bit.ly/2qTRwi2
Plenty of Republicans are distancing themselves from Pruitt. Not Lamar Smith, not today. Pruitt is a "courageous head of the EPA," Smith says at the agency's science event. "We couldn't have a better head of the EPA."
"I know of no other administration official who goes on the offensive, who isn't intimidated" and who does what he thinks is right, Smith says of Pruitt.
