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  • Joshua Roberts / Reuters

    Emails show new EPA chief is cozy with the fossil fuel industry

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    02.22.2017

    There's no question that new Environmental Protection Agency leader Scott Pruitt has a conflict of interest when he previously declared himself the agency's number one enemy. However, it's now clearer just why he so fervently opposes eco-friendly regulation. The Center for Media and Democracy has used a court order to obtain emails from Pruitt's time as Oklahoma's attorney general, and they reveal an uncomfortably close relationship with the fossil fuel industry he's now supposed to regulate.