Will Work to Destroy EPA Regulations
Senate Republicans have just confirmed President Donald Trump’s highly-controversial nominee, Scott Pruitt, to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The vote was 52-46.
Pruitt will become the most anti-EPA chief in the agency’s history. He has spent years suing the agency.
Republicans also defeated a vote to delay the confirmation vote for ten days over a court order to release concerning emails from Pruitt’s account.
A judge ordered about 3000 of Pruitt’s email exchanges with oil, gas, coal and energy companies released. The first batch will not be released until Tuesday, causing Democrats to request a delay of today’s vote.Â
As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt in the past has copied text from energy company documents, added his Attorney General logo to them, and sent them to the EPA.
Under his tenure, Oklahoma earthquakes, found to be directly related to fracking, have increased exponentially.
Pruitt also worked to help local school districts get around federal laws than ban the distribution of Bibles.