Donald Trump’s climate-denying nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be in the crosshairs of a six-figure advertising campaign launched by Clean Air Moms Action, a project of the Environmental Defense Action Fund.
The minimum US$100,000 push will centre on children’s health issues and focus on Washington, DC and six states whose senators could swing the confirmation vote against Pruitt, The Hill reports.
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“The television and digital campaign is the latest salvo in the high-stakes battle over Scott Pruitt, the current attorney general of Oklahoma,” the paper notes. “The ads focus on Pruitt’s leading role in fighting President Obama’s 2011 rule limiting mercury and other air toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. The television ad cites scientific research to say that mercury harms children’s health, but says Pruitt doubted that science in court filings fighting the regulation.”
The ad also points to the more than $300,000 the fossil industry has lavished on Pruitt in the form of campaign donations. “We can’t trust Pruitt with our kids’ health,” the voiceover says. “Ask the Senate to vote ‘no’ on Pruitt.”
Better grab a chair before you read this—The Hill reports that Koch-backed FreedomWorks is running ads in Pruitt’s defence. (h/t to Midwest Energy News for pointing us to this story)
