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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Scott Pruitt's EPA [Watch (HLS stream): Scott Pruitt's EPA](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kwozIrQS.m3u8) (3:14)  _Published 2017-10-26. TIME's Justin Worland sits down with Scott Pruitt of the EPA_ --- Jul 28, 2023 4:20 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Speaks Out](/video/qXh2hnLM/) ### EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Speaks Out [Scott Pruitt Confirmed as EPA Chief](/video/JlIhIIC6/) ### Scott Pruitt Confirmed as EPA Chief [Scott Pruitt Confirmed as EPA Chief](/video/F4BiL5Ey/) ### Scott Pruitt Confirmed as EPA Chief --- ## Transcript My personal opinion is immaterial. Really? To the job of- You are gonna be the head of the agency to protect the environment and your personal feelings about whether climate change is caused by human activity and carbon emissions is immaterial? [ APPLAUSE ] [ MUSIC ] Science tells us that the climate is changing. And that human activity in some manner impacts that change. The ability to measure, with precision to degree and the extent of that impact, and what to do about it, are subject to continuing debate and dialogue, and well it should be. Part of what I did initially, coming into this position Was advanced [ UNKNOWN ] the basics agenda. Getting back to the core basic missions of the agency to really focus on a very constructive, tangible outcomes with respect to how we're improving the environment. You know the EPA should pass rules that are within the framework the Congress has established. That sounds pretty novel, but that's exactly what should occur. We shouldn't re- imagine our authority. To pick winners and losers. Our job is to enforce the law and so when a statue is passed by Congress, whether it's a clean air act or [ UNKNOWN ] or clean water act, our job is to administer that statue pursuant to the responsibilities and obligations and authority that Congress has given us. What's happened the last several years, Is this agency among others? but this agency particularly has taken a statute and really stretched them so far. That the courts are that step in and say you don't have authority or didn't have authority to do that. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] I think what the American people deserve is a open, honest, transparent discussion about what do we know or what don't we know with respect to CO2. You're welcome to the EPA, perhaps some of you this is your first visit to the EPA, its good to see co- monitors here at the EPA. The President, by his signature today, is rejecting the narrative that this country cannot be both pro- energy and pro- environment. So when environmental groups say you spend most of your time meeting with quote unquote polluters. Your response it seems might be something- I don't spend any time with polluters. Right. I prosecute polluters. Right. What I'm spending time with are stakeholders that care about outcomes. When you ask about the groups we've met with, those farmers and ranchers in Iowa or North Dakota or other parts, are they less of a conservation and environmentalist because they're not a part of some association? I mean they're our first environmentalist. Their greatest asset is their land. I think it's very important to help real orient thinking. To help us as a country understand that environmental stewardship should be our objective, should be our goal. Environmental protection is not to put up a fence, to say that we can feed the world or not, whether we can power the world or not. It's to use the natural resources that we've been blessed with as a country to help feed the world, power the world, but also do it in a way that is environmentally conscious and sensitive to future generations. So that's kind of a re- orientation of thinking, an attitude if you will along with specific focal points of measurements in each of these areas of air, land and water. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Scott Pruitt's EPA","description":"TIME's Justin Worland sits down with Scott Pruitt of the EPA","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kwozIrQS/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-10-26T02:55:59.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kwozIrQS.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/kwozIrQS/","duration":"PT3M14S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/kwozIrQS/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```