It is hubris that has gotten us into trouble in Washington. It is humility, principled leadership, and unwavering faith in the power of the states, the people, and our Constitution that will get us out.
Scott Pruitt
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.
Federalism is not one state dictating to the rest of the country what should occur in the area of CAFE.
We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out.
My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.
There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.
I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.
I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
This paradigm that says we have to choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking.
We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that.
Safety and health of water is clearly a compelling government interest.
We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.
When you hang around people who believe in you, it kind of uplifts your spirit a little bit. And you can see great things happen.
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.
The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.
The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.
There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or a climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. We see that throughout history. We impact the climate by our activity. How much so is very difficult to determine with respect to our CO2 or carbon footprint, but we obviously do.
Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline.
Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.
In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.
What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.
As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.
Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.
When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal?
We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.
There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.
It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.
I think the most grievous threat that we have today is this imperialistic judiciary, this judicial monarchy that has it wrong on what the First Amendment's about and has an objective to create religious sterility in the public square, which is wholly inconsistent with the Founding Fathers' view.
Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.
Agencies exist to administer the law.
This idea that if you're pro-environment you're anti-energy is just something we've got to change, so that attitude is something we're working on very much.
This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that well as a country. We haven't had to choose.
My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.
Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.
Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.
As Oklahoma attorney general, it is not my job to formulate or implement Oklahoma's plan, but it is my job to preserve Oklahoma's right to do so - particularly when the Clean Air Act so clearly recognizes that Oklahomans, and not federal bureaucrats, are best situated to determine Oklahoma energy and environmental policies.
My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.
As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.
Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.
EPA will set a national standard for greenhouse gas emissions that allows auto manufacturers to make cars that people both want and can afford - while still expanding environmental and safety benefits of newer cars.
