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US environment chief Scott Pruitt resigns amid ethics scandals

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A paper maché likeness of Scott Pruitt... as activists celebrate the firing of the Environmental Protection Agency''s controversial administrator. AMB lols4. (SOUNDBITE)(English) LUKAS ROSS-PROTESTER FROM FRIENDS OF THE EARTH SAYING:"The only reason that Scott Pruitt is out of a job today is because the political blowback of his many egregious acts of corruption has become overwhelming."He was a favourite of Donald Trump, but even the US President was unable to ignore the steady stream of ethics scandals staining Pruitt''s reputation. These include spending: - over 3 million euros for his 20-member security detail- some 40 000 euros to install a soundproof phone booth in his office- at least 100 000 euros on first-class air travel
   all on the taxpayer''s dime... It also emerged that Pruitt stayed in cut-price accommodation owned by an energy lobbyist, raising alarm about his cosy relationship with industry.  Pruitt routinely ordered his aides to do personal chores for him, including obtaining a used Trump hotel mattress for his apartment. They were also tasked with helping his unemployed wife open a franchise of the US fast food chain Chick-fil-A. 7. (SOUNDBITE)(English) CHARLES HITCHCOCK-EPA EMPLOYEE SAYING: it was becoming an increasingly harder and harder for me to get out of bed and come to work every day in an agency being run by a gentleman that had sued it 12 times while he was serving as the attorney general for the state of Oklahoma where he came fromDuring his 17 month tenure as EPA chief, the climate change skpetic rolled back regulations protecting clean water and backed Trump''s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement

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