Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has scrapped plans for a business trip to Israel previously scheduled for this week, an agency official said. News of the decision came roughly a week after The Washington Post reported on Pruitt’s expensive air travel habits, prompting criticism from government ethics watchdogs. But EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman told HuffPost that the trip had been called off. EPA receipts obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project through Freedom of Information Act requests showed Pruitt and his staffers racked up at least $90,000 worth of taxpayer-funded travel expenses in early June alone. The internal agency probe is also looking into Pruitt’s frequent trips to his home state of Oklahoma.

Source: Huffington Post February 19, 2018 16:41 UTC