CABINET/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT: "In a transition filled with unconventional cabinet picks, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to head the Environmental Protection Agency, stands out. As Oklahoma’s top lawyer for much of the past seven years, Pruitt has established himself as a loyal friend of the fossil fuel industry and become one of the country’s main antagonists of the very agency he's poised to lead.
Pruitt has challenged more than a dozen EPA actions, including President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, limit on mercury from power plants, and regional haze regulations designed to protect the air around national parks."
– “Pruitt Faces Fire on Climate Views,” Bloomberg businessweek, Jan. 23, 2017, Jennifer A. Dlouhy, 1/23/2017