Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt’s schedule has been made public for the first time. It is the first time Pruitt’s schedule has been made public and it adds to understanding about how he makes decisions. On the morning of May 1, Pruitt met at EPA headquarters with the Pebble Limited Partnership, a Canadian firm that had been blocked by the agency in 2014 from building a massive gold, copper and molybdenum mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Pruitt also met April 6 with FirstEnergy, an Ohio-based utility that has been looking for financial or regulatory relief to keep its aging coal plants from being shut down. On May 25, Pruitt met with Bob Perciasepe, who served as deputy administrator of the EPA for four and-a-half years under Obama and now heads the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 22:30 UTC