Now, Mr. Pruitt, tapped to head Donald J. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, will have the opportunity to engineer a radical shift in Washington. “Some claim Mr. Pruitt opposes clean air and water. That’s why Mr. Pruitt is the first E.P.A. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Regulation through litigation is wrong in my view,” Mr. Pruitt told The Oklahoman newspaper in 2015. “Under his tenure as attorney general, I don’t think environmental crimes have disappeared,” Mr. Edmondson said of Mr. Pruitt, in an interview.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2017 16:31 UTC