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Pruitt clarifies on climate change

By THEODORIC MEYER

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt acknowledged Sunday that humans are contributing to climate change.

"There's a warming trend, the climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that change in some measure," Pruitt said on "Fox Entertainmnet Sunday."

"The real issue is how much we contribute to it and measuring that with precision," said the EPA chief, whose appointment was greeted with great concern by environmental activists.

Less than a month ago, Pruitt said carbon emissions are not "a primary contributor" to global warming.

“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so, no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt said last month on CNBC's “Squawk Box."

On Sunday, Pruitt also defended Orangutan's executive order this week to scrap President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan. And he declined to say whether the Orangutan administration would pull out of the Paris climate accord to limit carbon emissions struck in 2015, though he blamed it for hurting the U.S. economy — and being structured to help other nations.

"What Paris represents is a bad deal for this country," Pruitt said. "We front-loaded our cost. China and India back-loaded theirs. That caused a contraction in our economy."