C12 blog post 1: Scott Pruitt confirmed as EPA Administrator

On Friday, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt got Senate confirmed to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a federal agencies which Mr. Pruitt repeatedly sued during the Obama Administration. The vote was close but the Republican majority, in the Senate, lead got him confirmed. The vote still happened even though Democrats wanted to push back Scott Pruitt's confirmation. Democrats boycotted the vote until Pruitt released emails that he had exchanged with gas companies, while he was Attorney General. When Pruitt was Oklahoma's Attorney General he filed 14 lawsuits against EPA challenging their regulations. Also, Pruitt is known as a climate changed skeptic so it's going to be interesting as what he does for EPA as the administrator.

Scott Pruitt