Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a climate change skeptic who fought the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on carbon emissions, moved a big step closer to becoming that agency’s leader.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Republicans voted 11-0 Thursday in approval of Pruitt serving as the EPA’s administrator following a boycott by Democrats. A vote by the full Republican-led Senate will make him President Trump’s point man for his plan to make the agency more industry-friendly.
