WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change — and much of the E.P.A. itself.
Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.”
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Scott Pruitt: A Great Selection by: @DrewRyun https://t.co/7L74Vk54tp pic.twitter.com/RDsauyxBYM
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 7, 2016
Congrats to @AGScottPruitt! Strong pick by @realDonaldTrump to lead #EPA: https://t.co/aCXenEp0Yg
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 8, 2016
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