The refusal to use the emergency lights resulted in at least one whistleblower, Kevin Chmielewski, claiming that he has been unable to get other jobs in government since making public complaints about Pruitt's proclivities for high-speed maneuvers. Executive order calls for sharp logging increase on public lands. Their use has not been during emergency situations but to ease travel like turning across oncoming traffic, using excessive speed to expedite a trip or to make a path through other motorists.' The report then lists specific incidents that officials serving under Pruitt relayed, including a time when he asked a driver, “Can you guys use that magic button to get us through traffic?' Eventually, some of Pruitt's drivers began to tell him the lights were broken, so he would stop requesting their use. Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist who replaced Scott Pruitt, President Trumps first. According to the (unredacted) areas, 'Lights and sirens have been used at the direction of as the agents do not feel comfortable disobeying the agency head. In one of the heavily redacted reports of alleged improprieties, there is an entire five-paragraph section devoted to the improper use of emergency lights.

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