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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.
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.
Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Attorney General of Oklahoma, has spent two years avoiding requests to release more than 3,000 emails between his office and fossil fuel companies.
An Oklahoma judge on Thursday ordered Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to turn over to a watchdog group nearly 3,000 emails that purportedly reveal his ties to the fossil fuel industry, the group said.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
Democrats will hold the Senate floor through the night ahead of a confirmation vote on Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency after senators voted Thursday to move ahead with his nomination.
President Donald Trump’s pick to head the EPA, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, will be forced to hand over more than 3,000 emails to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a watchdog group, after a district judge ordered their release.
Climate, Environment, Koch, Trump
Oklahoma County Judge Aletia Timmons ruled Feb. 16 that Pruitt’s office has until Feb. 20 to release records requested by The Center for Media and Democracy in 2015 and 2016. The group requested communications Pruitt’s office had with Koch Industries and other coal, oil and gas corporations. The group states that Pruitt’s office acknowledged having over 3,000 documents related to the request. The group announced Feb. 7 that they had filed suit against Pruitt for allegedly violating the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
“Incomplete information” and “eroding trust” are perfect descriptors of another one of this president’s picks: the just-confirmed new head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt.
Throughout both his tenure as Oklahoma’s attorney general and his confirmation process for administrator of the Environmental Protection Administration, Scott Pruitt failed to answer questions and refused to disclose necessary information.