Photo: Eric Vance, Photographer, United States Environmental Protection Agency / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Scott Pruitt is a figure I find genuinely uncomfortable, and I think that discomfort is the honest response. A Kentucky-born lawyer who rose to run the Environmental Protection Agency, he is best remembered for doubting the very climate science his office was meant to act on, and for resigning amid a stack of federal investigations. Power without stewardship is the theme I read in his story. He was influential enough to land on Time's list, yet influence and integrity are not the same currency. I keep his entry not to celebrate it but to remember the question it poses: what does someone leave behind once they finally hold the chair they wanted?
Overview
Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American attorney, lobbyist and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17, 2017, to July 9, 2018, during the Donald Trump presidency, resigning while under at least 14 federal investigations. Pruitt denies the scientific consensus on climate change.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Scott Pruitt
- Name (Japanese)
- スコット・プルイット
- Reading
- すこっと・ぷるいっと
- Born
- May 9, 1968 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Danville, Kentucky, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- lawyer / politician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Tulsa
Awards & achievements
- 2017 Nature's 10
- 2018 Time 100
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.