EPA chief Pruitt’s newly released emails show deep ties to fossil fuel interests

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks on Tuesday to employees of the agency in Washington.A batch of 7,564 pages of emails and other records from Scott Pruitt’s tenure as Oklahoma attorney general — made public Wednesday morning — show that he worked with the fossil fuel industry in its efforts to roll back environmental regulations.The documents were handed over to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) Tuesday night as a result of an Ope