Top Pruitt aide resigns from EPA amid controversies
Source: the hill
By Miranda Green - 04/05/18 10:30 AM EDT
A top aide and close friend of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has issued her resignation in the midst of various scandals plaguing the agency chief.
Samantha Dravis, the senior counsel and associate administrator in EPA's Office of Policy, tendered her resignation last week, the agency confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.
The sudden departure is described by one source familiar with the EPA as a five-alarm story.
A friend close to Dravis suggested her decision to leave had been building.
"She has been looking to leave for a while. A lot of people in the administration wanted her to stay for the year to put her time in but its one drama after another. Its a shit show," the source said.
Dravis has a long history with Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/381773-top-pruitt-aide-resigns-from-epa-amid-controversies
Pressure Mounts on Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief, as Top Advisers Eye the Exit
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/climate/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-pressure.html
Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, with his top policy adviser, Samantha Dravis, at Trump Tower in 2016. Ms. Dravis is said to be resigning.CreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press
By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman
April 5, 2018
WASHINGTON Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is under increased White House scrutiny over his housing and travel arrangements as some of his own senior staff are expressing growing frustration with the public criticism of their boss, according to four people, including an E.P.A. official, who have spoken with the staff members.
Mr. Pruitt has emerged as one of President Trumps top lieutenants as well as a conservative hero for his aggressiveness in loosening or undoing dozens of environmental regulations while weakening many of the agencys clean-air and water-enforcement programs. But the series of ethical questions is threatening his good standing with the president and driving away some senior staffers.
Samantha Dravis, Mr. Pruitts top policy adviser, has recently told him she is resigning, according to two E.P.A. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the news has not been made public. And his chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, has grown frustrated enough with his boss that he has considered resigning, according to people in whom Mr. Jackson has confided.
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Both Ms. Dravis and Mr. Jackson are seasoned Washington insiders who have worked for years among the capitals top conservative Republicans and industry lobbyists.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)As bad or worse than the hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money wasted on his ego and his sense of entitlement.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142030489
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)the entire Trump administration.
getagrip_already
(14,864 posts)and he leaked the info on pruit as payback.
Apparently she and porter used to date. He probably hit her as well.
calimary
(81,523 posts)I think there's only so much of this before one of those additional stories of how corrupt he is and how much trouble he now poses to trump finally becomes the straw that breaks the Pruitt's job's back.
And it'll ONLY be because it will finally occur to trump that Pruitt's making him look bad. PLUS becoming WAY too much trouble. I would expect the climate-denying human wrecking machine to take a job as a well-paid lobbyist and pull the EPA marionette strings behind the scenes, STILL up to no good but in the shadows without any accountability anymore.
riversedge
(70,330 posts)double time to dig up the dirt.
calimary
(81,523 posts)As long as the GOP controls all of Capitol Hill as well as the White House, there will be NO accountability. Maybe November will correct some of that, but there's no way things will change if Dems don't turn out in great numbers and vote.
Trumpdumper
(171 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)Hey, with this bunch, ANYTHING underhanded, illegal, or amoral could and often does happen.