Pruitt Likely to Bow Out of Fundraising Gala over Legal Concerns

“As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt used his position to peddle the agendas of oil and gas companies. Now, not even three months into his tenure as head of the EPA, he appears to be violating ethics laws,” Nick Surgey, research director of the Center for Media and Democracy, said in a statement. Surgey’s group is still litigating the disclosure of Pruitt’s email correspondence with the fossil fuel industry as attorney general.