Scandal-plagued EPA Administrator Pruitt resigns

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease.
With Pruitt’s departure, President Donald Trump loses an administrator many conservatives regarded as one of the more effective members of his Cabinet. But Pruitt had also been dogged for months by a seemingly unen