{"id":5192,"date":"2017-01-30T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-scott-pruitt-nomination\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:08","slug":"merkley-statement-on-scott-pruitt-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-scott-pruitt-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre la nominaci\u00f3n de Scott Pruitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 El senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, miembro del Comit\u00e9 Senatorial de Medio Ambiente y Obras P\u00fablicas, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n anunciando su oposici\u00f3n a la nominaci\u00f3n del Fiscal General de Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt, para encabezar la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental (EPA):<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDe su testimonio y su historial se desprende claramente que el Sr. Pruitt no cree en la misi\u00f3n de la EPA de proteger la salud p\u00fablica y el inter\u00e9s p\u00fablico de la gente de esta naci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cComo Fiscal General, el Sr. Pruitt ha utilizado regularmente su cargo para oponerse al trabajo de la agencia que ahora tendr\u00eda la tarea de dirigir. Luch\u00f3 contra las restricciones a las peligrosas fugas de metano de los pozos de petr\u00f3leo y gas. Trat\u00f3 de bloquear acciones sobre la calidad del aire que generar\u00edan casi seis mil millones de d\u00f3lares en beneficios para la salud y evitar\u00edan 230.000 ataques de asma en ni\u00f1os cada a\u00f1o. Y se opuso al Est\u00e1ndar de Mercurio y T\u00f3xicos del Aire destinado a impedir que los venenosos, el ars\u00e9nico, el plomo y otros contaminantes de las centrales el\u00e9ctricas que queman carb\u00f3n y petr\u00f3leo ingresen a nuestras comunidades y al medio ambiente.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cY a pesar del da\u00f1o que el cambio clim\u00e1tico ya est\u00e1 causando en nuestras ciudades y comunidades, da\u00f1o que podemos ver con nuestros propios ojos, como defensor de la industria del petr\u00f3leo y el gas, el Sr. Pruitt se niega a admitir la realidad de esta catastr\u00f3fica amenaza a nuestro planeta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&quot;En lugar de Scott Pruitt, necesitamos un administrador de la EPA que se gu\u00ede por la ciencia y est\u00e9 comprometido con la misi\u00f3n de la agencia de proteger la salud de los estadounidenses y nuestro medio ambiente natural&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement announcing his opposition to the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):&nbsp; &ldquo;It is clear from his testimony and his record that Mr. Pruitt does not believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-tackling-climate-change"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Statement on Scott Pruitt Nomination - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-scott-pruitt-nomination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Statement on Scott Pruitt Nomination - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; 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