Considering how Pruitt is gutting out the EPA every which way he can with the same fervor that a lioness takes down and disembowels an impala, I really can't blame him for being as paranoid as he is. He is making a lot of enemies in his quest to do the bidding of those industries that are either continuing to pollute to their heart's content or for the ones whose profits are "stymied" by regulations that are actually needed to keep them from trashing the environment any more than they are. He is a hired hitman. He is a hatchet man with a very bloodied hatchet and he is using it like his life is depending on it. If I were him doing the damage he's doing, I'd want a security detail to hug me for the rest of my life.
Pruitt knows and understands that what he is doing is vile, is only possible due to the totally corrupt Trump administration repaying Pruitt's donor bosses in spades, is reviled by those many hunters who truly understand the ways of nature and their place in it, with environmentalists who actually witness how American industries are hurting the environment, with folks who drink water laden with lead and with folks who want their children and grandchildren to have a safe environment to live and work in well into the future.
Environmental Protection Agency? With Pruitt in charge it's more like Environmental Destruction Agency. The industry bigwigs who flout their influence and control over our politicians are thumbing their noses at us, that in one way or another have enabled them to do just that by having Trump and his totally corrupt administration do as they please without any penalty for their actions.
As Repubs are often very eager to profess, a unified gov't is a dangerous thing and that needs to be remedied by having the House and Senate get taken over by the Dems this coming November.
If Trump is still around to see this happen, I wonder who he's going to blame for the turnover?