Should he stay or should he go?

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EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has been in the news a lot lately.  Reports say that he has

• rented a low-cost room near Capitol Hill from Vicki Hart, the wife of an energy lobbyist 
• gave large raises (one over 50%) to staffers
• spent significant taxpayer dollars on travel and security.

Does all of this activity warrant removal from office?  I don't know.  What I do know is that Mr. Pruitt has no business being the head of the EPA for the following reasons:

• while OK Attorney General, he sued the EPA at least 14 times in order to weaken air and water pollution controls
• he is not convinced that human-produced CO2 is the main driver in climate change
• he wants to loosen vehicle emissions standards 
• his Back to Basics Agenda is simply a give-away to regulated industries (he launched the new agenda at a Pennsylvania coal mine) 

We can ignore Mr. Pruitt's shady management style and still have plenty of reasons to want to see him leave his job as EPA Administrator.