Trump Picks Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to Lead EPA

On Thursday President-elect Donald Trump nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.  Pruitt’s nomination signals a major policy shift on environmental regulations from that of the Obama Administration.  Scott Pruitt has written that the debate on climate change is “far from settled.”  He recently joined a coalition of state attorney generals in suing over the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and he has also sued over the EPA’s recently announced regulations seeking to curtail the emissions of methane from the oil and gas sector.  

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