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Quoted: Pruitt's Sunday talk show visits draw criticism

June 05, 2017
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt appeared on three of the Sunday talk shows to defend President Donald Trump's decision to exit the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change, but many of Pruitt's statements are being questioned or criticized. For example, Pruitt told NBC's “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that “since the fourth quarter of last year to most recently [the country] added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs,” according...


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