Pruitt Protection Agency

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is not only snug in the pocket of the industry players his agency is supposed to be regulating. He’s not only hostile to science, having just unveiled a new rule sharply limiting what research can be used in writing agency regulations.

He’s not only a profligate spender of taxpayer dollars — on a $43,000 soundproof booth, on first-class travel, on a bulletproof desk, and on a 20-member full-time detail that is more than three times his predecessor’s security team.

He is also untruthful, as confirmed in testimony before the U.S. House Thursday.

Earlier this month, in a Fox News interview, Prutt said he had nothing to do with two gargantuan raises for two staffers — 30-year-old legal counsel Sarah Greenwalt and 26-year-old scheduler Millan Hupp — both of whom came with him to Washington from Oklahoma.

Greenwalt’s pay shot up $66,000, to $164,200; Hupp’s went up $48,000, to $114,590.

“I did not know that they got the pay raises until yesterday,” was his don’t-look-at-me answer on April 4.

That conflicted with an email Greenwalt sent to the EPA’s human resources department saying that the raises had been discussed with the big boss in advance. And clashed with reports saying the raises came only after that Pruitt approached the White House about them in March and got a “no” — prompting an end run around the refusal by the EPA, using an obscure provision of law.

Thursday, under oath, Pruitt gave what is the third, fourth or fifth version of events depending on who’s counting: “I was aware . . . one of those individuals was receiving a raise,” he said.

“Facts are facts and fiction is fiction,” Pruitt also told Congress. He should say it again to the man in the mirror.