Investigating Power
The Senate on Thursday moved closer to approving President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency even as nearly 800 former officials urged the chamber to reject the nominee, who sued the agency more than a dozen times as attorney general of oil-producing Oklahoma.
Just a day before the Senate is slated to vote on Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s nomination run the Environmental Protection Agency, a state district judge ruled Thursday that his office must release of up to 3,000 requested emails that have not been publicly released.
Later this week, the Senate is expected to hand over control of the Environmental Protection Agency to environmentalists’ worst nightmare. Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has spent his career waging legal battles against clean air, climate, and water regulations.
A state judge in Oklahoma today ordered Scott Pruitt to release by Tuesday potentially thousands of emails he exchanged with fossil fuel interests in his job as state attorney general, according to the watchdog groups that sued seeking the communications.
An Oklahoma County District judge on Thursday ordered Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office to turn over emails and other documents requested two years ago by a watchdog group.
The Oklahoma attorney general’s office will have until Tuesday to turn over as many as 3,000 documents related to U.S. EPA administrator nominee Scott Pruitt’s communications with oil, gas and coal groups, a state district judge ruled this afternoon.
Senate Democrats are planning an all-night talkathon Thursday over President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
SENATE SET TO VOTE ON PRUITT: The Senate is scheduled to vote Friday on President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Senate Democrats are planning to once again stage a series of overnight speeches on the Senate floor, this time in opposition to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s nomination to head the EPA.
A state judge has ordered Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office to release thousands of documents related to Pruitt’s communications with the energy industry. The Thursday ruling comes the day before a scheduled Senate vote on Pruitt’s nomination to run the Environmental Protection Agency.