All that scrutiny over his first-class travels and use of military planes caused Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to cancel a planned trip to Israel. He was scheduled to leave on the anniversary of his first year in office but called off the nearly week-long trip on Sunday.
“We decided to postpone; the administrator looks forward to going in the future,” EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said in an email Sunday. She did not provide a reason for the postponement according to a report in the Washington Post.
The former Oklahoma Attorney General, as OK Energy Today reported last week, defend the costs of his travel, explaining it is what his security detail had recommended in order to avoid public confrontations.
Pruitt had been scheduled to arrive Sunday in Israel and stay until Thursday at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. His support staff from the U.S. Embassy were supposed to be with him on the trip.
Pruitt’s office originally announced he was taking the trip to “gain an understanding of Israel’s unique infrastructure and environmental challenges.” He was slated to inspect a water recycling plant, meet with officials from Israeli water technology companies and also tour a toxic land remediation site.
