Trump EPA pick: still 'some debate' over human role in climate change
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#29CBA)
At Senate confirmation hearing to lead Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt defends his relationship with fossil fuel industry
Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's pick to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, has claimed there is still "some debate" over the role of human activity in climate change and has defended his relationship with the fossil fuel industry during a combative Senate confirmation hearing.
Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has sued the agency he is now set to lead 14 times over the EPA's smog, mercury and other pollution regulations. Several of these cases are still ongoing and Pruitt said he would recuse himself in dealing with these cases if instructed to do so by the EPA's ethics board.
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