--- title: Scott Pruitt Attends Press Briefing: Watch Online description: Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, will appear at the White House Press briefing with Sean Spicer on Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-02T12:56:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:13:57.196Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Attends Press Briefing og:description: A day after Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris agreement og:url: https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Attends Press Briefing twitter:description: A day after Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris agreement twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Joins Sean Spicer for White House Press Briefing by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 2, 2017 12:56 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 2, 2017 12:56 PM UTC Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt will appear at the White House Press briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer Friday, one day after President Donald Trump [announced](http://time.com/4801134/paris-agreement-withdrawal-donald-trump-rose-garden/?xid=homepage) he’s pulling the United States out of the [Paris climate agreement](http://time.com/4801344/paris-agreement-climate-deal-donald-trump/). “In order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris accords or really an entire new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States,” Trump said Thursday. “So we are getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that’s fair.” Top officials in Europe and China are set to [move forward](http://time.com/4802767/europe-china-climate-change-paris-trump/?xid=homepage) with the agreement without the U.S. Former President Barack Obama [said](http://time.com/4802148/paris-agreement-barack-obama-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) Trump’s decision “reject\[s\] the future,” and other supporters of the deal are [concerned](http://time.com/4799404/paris-agreement-trump-withdrawal-climate/?xid=homepage) about the effect U.S. withdrawal will have on the climate, investment in alternative energy sources and international relationships. The briefing starts at 1:30 pm. Watch live above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/"},"headline":"Watch Live: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Joins Sean Spicer for White House Press Briefing","datePublished":"2017-06-02T12:56:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:13:57.196Z","description":"Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, will appear at the White House Press briefing with Sean Spicer on Friday.","url":"https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/","keywords":["White House","paris agreement","onetime","sean spicer","Scott Pruitt"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4802832/scott-pruitt-sean-spicer-briefing-watch-online/","name":"Watch Live: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Joins Sean Spicer for White House Press Briefing"}}]}] ```