Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is calling on his fans to protest Scott Pruitt, calling President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a "piece of s---."

Put simply, Scott Pruitt is a piece of shit. If you care about the outdoors, stop him https://t.co/jh4VM7SECx #PruittHearing — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 18, 2017

Kimmel, who hosts ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” also posted a link to the environmental group American Rivers's website, reading:

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency is someone who has fought consistently to block environmental protections. The American people did not vote to put the EPA in the hands of someone who has recklessly worked against its mission to protect Americans’ water.

Tell your Senators: Do not put our clean water and rivers at risk. Vote no for the nomination of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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American Rivers’s website says the organization “protects wild rivers, restores damaged rivers and conserves clean water for people and nature.”

Pruitt’s confirmation hearing began Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersMcConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters Why Democrats must confront extreme left wing incitement to violence MORE (I-Vt.) battled Pruitt, Oklahoma's attorney general, over his calls for “more debate” about human influence on climate change.

“Ninety-seven percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change,” Sanders said. "Do you disagree with that?”

“My personal opinion is immaterial to the job I’m carrying out,” Pruitt responded.

“You are going to be the head of the agency to protect the environment, and your personal feelings about whether climate change is caused by human activity and carbon emissions is immaterial?” Sanders retorted.

Aggressive action to counter climate change was a key plank of Sanders's platform in his presidential bid last year.

Trump has pledged to roll back all of President Obama’s climate agenda, including the Clean Power Plan and limits on methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, all of which Pruitt opposes as well.