The Environmental Protect Agency chief who hit some turbulence when he said he needed to fly first-class because of “unprecedented” threats now says he will return to coach when he travels.

Scott Pruitt said after a “threat assessment” a “change is coming”​ to put an end to his lavish, taxpayer-funded jaunts around the world.​

“What I’ve told them going forward is this: There is a change occurring, you’re going to accommodate the security threats as they exist, you’re going to accommodate those in all ways, alternate ways, up to and including flying coach, and that is what’s going to happen on my very next flight​,” he said in an interview on CBS News’ “The Takeout” podcast that aired Wednesday.

“So those things are happening right away.”

Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, has been criticized for his pricey travel and round-the-clock security detail since being appointed to the post by President Trump last year.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent Pruitt a letter last week seeking all records of his travels on the taxpayers’ dime.

Pruitt defended the need to fly first-class because the “threats I have faced are unprecedented” – four to five times higher than those against his predecessor.

“There have been incidents in airports and those incidents you know occurred and they are of different types, but here what I really wanted to try to convey to you is that these threats have been unprecedented from the very beginning and that the quantity and type are unprecedented,” Pruitt said. “You’re gonna accommodate security threats as they exist, up to and including flying coach.”

The EPA inspector general is also examining Pruitt’s travel, including his frequent weekend trips to his home state of Oklahoma.

Last June when he attended meetings at the Vatican, taxpayers picked up the tab for his round-trip business-class flight on Emirates Airlines aboard planes with luxurious accommodations. The cost was $7,000.