Craft and Mr. Pruitt are originally from Kentucky and later moved their professional lives to Oklahoma, where Mr. Pruitt served in the state legislature and then as the state attorney general before he was nominated to take over the E.P.A. Alliance Resources is based in Tulsa, Okla.As attorney general, Mr. Pruitt sought to protect the coal industry and coal-burning power plants from federal regulation. After Mr. Pruitt joined the E.P.A., he continued to advance policies that benefited the coal industry. made public a long-delayed financial disclosure report for Mr. Pruitt covering 2017. (Previously, Mr. Pruitt has denied that it was a below-market-value arrangement.)

Source: New York Times September 12, 2018 19:33 UTC