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"I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out," Kristin Mink, a teacher in Washington DC, told the EPA administrator as he ate lunch.

It’s long past time to Boot Pruitt! ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE CALLS FOR SCOTT PRUITT TO RESIGN OR BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!

I’ve signed the petition. I rarely sign those things, because I don’t think mass petition delivery from organizations are effective. When I can, I submit my own comments or petitions, if a petition is the proper approach. But in this case, I wouldn’t know to whom I would appeal, so I did the petition. Being an Illinois resident, both of my Senators (Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth) don’t like pruitt (or trump or any bits and pieces of him or his administration). My Congressional Representative is Danny Davis, an African American from the west side of Chicago who is more to the left than most DC politicians.

Description of the project from Center for American Progress:

Since taking over as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Administrator Pruitt has systematically and aggressively worked to dismantle basic protections for public health, clean air, and clean water—actions which run counter to the EPA’s mandate to protect health and the environment. Pruitt’s harmful actions go beyond our health too—Pruitt is a prime example of the Trump culture of corruption. He’s under three separate investigations by the EPA Inspector General for ethical misdeeds, including spending upwards of $105,000 taxpayer dollars on first-class plane tickets and wasting $43,000 on a private and sound-proof phone-booth.

Pruitt has also kept the revolving door of industry lobbyists to government regulators spinning at his EPA, hiring his friends who have no environmental experience and consistently prioritizing industry allies and polluters. He is also anti-science, publicly questioning both climate change and evolution, and he has ignored the data and research of his own agency time and again--for example by refusing to ban a harmful pesticide even after learning of its damaging impacts on children’s neurological development. The math from all of this is clear: not only do Pruitt’s actions pose a risk to the health of American families, but his questionable ethical record makes him truly unfit to serve in any public office. He must resign.

That’s why, today, we joined with 9 other major progressive and environmental organizations to launch a campaign to “Boot Pruitt.” It’s time to fight back. Join us in telling Scott Pruitt it’s time to resign, and sign the petition to give him the boot.

The partners in the project:

Center for American Progress (CAP Action)

Hip Hop Caucus

Defend Our Future

Green For All

Green Latinos

Sierra Club

National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

League of Conservation Voters

NextGen America

Environmental Defense Fund

Friends of the Earth