Scott Pruitt: “I think that the EPA bears responsibility for what happened in Flint and would seek to, in the future, avoid those kinds…”

we have much work to do because there's 40 percent of the country still living in nonattainment with respect to ozone.

The only authority that any agency has in the executive branch is the authority given to it by Congress.

We have reduced those pollutants under the Clean Air Act that we regulate under the National Ambient Air Quality Program by over 65 percent.

The regulatory rollback--larger in scope than any over so short a time in the agency's near half-century history--is a direct boon to the fossil fuel industry.