EPA docs don’t show any scientific evidence for Scott Pruitt’s climate claims

Enlarge / Scott Pruitt during his confirmation hearings. (credit: Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not been able to offer any scientific evidence for statements made by the agency's former administrator, Scott Pruitt, when he went on CNBC in March 2017 and said that carbon dioxide was not known to be a major contributor to climate change.

During a live interview last year on Squawk Box, the administrator stated: "I would not agree that [carbon dioxide is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," adding, "there's a tremendous disagreement about the degree of the impact" of "human activity on the climate."

Pruitt's statements contradicted overwhelming scientific evidence as well as everything the EPA had published before he took office. In response, a group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) formally requested any scientific documentation that might have informed Pruitt's opinion, given the gravity of the about-face.

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