In a gift to the nation and the world, Hair Further announced on his personal media platform, Twitter, that Scott Pruitt will be leaving the EPA. Pruitt cited the "sizable toll" that the controversy over his unethical behavior in office has taken on himself and his family. He was being investigated for his use of government funds for personal travel and office improvements. He also raised eyebrows when he used obscure provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act to give pay raises to two of his aides. By the UK Guardian's count, Pruitt was under fourteen separate federal investigations. Earlier this week a whistle blower revealed that Pruitt kept a secret calendar of his meetings with industry representatives, and asked staff members to use their personal credit cards for his hotel bookings. Several staff members have resigned in protest against Pruitt's malfeasance. The government's personnel office that protects whistle blowers, Office of Special Counsel launched its own investigation of EPA staff complaints of retaliation by the agency's chief.
Mr. Yuge, ethically challenged himself, continued to praise his appointment's performance after the resignation. However, other party members expressed their relief at Pruitt's departure, one congressman opining, "He [Pruitt] was a disaster and an embarrassment from day one, and the country is far better off without him.” One EPA official expressed privately, “People are so done with these folks. We wanted and waited for some adults to show up. But the relentless tide of bullshit from Pruitt and his cronies is tough to deal with.” US Person thinks whether the agency will depart from Pruitt's extremist brand of anti-regulation is questionable. Pruitt's Washington insider deputy will take over the agency on an interim basis. In the first six months of Trump's 'administration' the lead enforcement agency for the protection of the environment has collected 60% less in civil fines from polluters than in the same time frame under Presidents Bush and Obama. It has also initiated fewer civil and criminal cases.