President-elect Donald Trump made his choice for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency today, and that choice is fossil-fuel-friendly Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.
Pruitt was trained as a lawyer before becoming a state senator in 1998 and attorney general in 2011. As attorney general, Pruitt was an active opponent of the EPA. In 2013, he testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee that he felt the EPA was overstepping its authority in pursuit of an “anti-fossil fuel agenda.”
