The imprudent Scott Pruitt

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sirens galore, as the team races through Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt's many, many scandals and a white paper about unnecessary ambulance use. References: Trump's defense of Scott Pruitt A good explainer on the Pruitt scandal How EPA deregulations impact toxic air pollution Michael Grunwald's piece on Pruitt's rollback of Obama era environmental regulations Elaina Plott's pieces on Scott Pruitt and more Working paper on ambulance usage in New York Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're on top of the ambulance.
0:01.5	Yeah, I'll do the white paper.
0:02.4	I can't enter that.
0:03.2	Maybe not literally on top of the ambulance.
0:04.8	That seems like a bad thing.
0:05.9	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:19.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds
0:21.8	on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:23.3	I'm Matthew Glacias, joined by Sarah Cliff and Darryl Land,
0:26.0	our exciting new Tuesday lineup.
0:28.6	It's amazing.
0:29.4	It's great to have you guys here.
0:31.5	We've got a cool white paper coming up about ambulances
0:35.0	and Obamacare, and it's fun, it's fresh.
0:38.3	It's a little bit of a different twist for the weeds, really,
0:40.3	because it says that maybe giving people health insurance
0:43.1	is bad.
0:43.9	Oregon fans of that case study will not find this.
0:46.8	Well, there are some surprising things.
0:48.4	Surprise is for everyone.
0:49.5	Yeah, it's interesting.
0:50.7	It's interesting.
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