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- Scott Pruitt's legacy of incompetence at the EPA is living on, even with his more diligent successor.
- That's because President Donald Trump may not let the acting EPA administrator be thorough, make arguments that can stand up in court, and actually get deregulation done.
- Trump's environmental policy has often created the appearance of deregulation without much to show for it.
For liberals, the silver lining of Scott Pruitt's corrupt reign at the Environmental Protection Agency was his incompetence.
Pruitt became a conservative darling by developing a reputation as an aggressive deregulator, and that reputation helped him build goodwill with President Donald Trump that persisted for months after virtually everyone else in Washington had come to hate him.
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