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Climate Change Is Going to Make Scott Pruitt Need So Much Moisturizer

The EPA administrator’s apparent taste for fancy lotion will become more expensive if his agency continues to undermine efforts to address the planet's warming.
Source: Jorge Silva / Reuters

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency faced renewed scrutiny this week—with the latest allegations of unethical behavior veering, at times, into the utterly absurd.

For example, Scott Pruitt reportedly attempted to use his position to secure a Chick-Fil-A franchise for his wife; dispatched an aide look into from Trump International Hotel; and had security agents in search of a moisturizing lotion available at Ritz-Carlton Hotels.

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