Trump Cabinet Confirmations: Scott Pruitt confirmed as EPA administrator

Schneiderman lashed out at Congress on Friday after the confirmation of Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

On Thursday, an Oklahoma judge ruled in CMD and the ACLU’s favor, ordering Pruitt’s office to turn over the rest of the 2,500 emails-by next Tuesday. So Democrats originally requesting the vote be postponed until March 3, but that request was denied.

In a contentious confirmation process, Democrats boycotted an earlier vote over his email refusal and claimed he was too close to energy companies. All other votes, including that of Ohio’s Rob Portman, a Republican, were on party lines.

“If it wasn’t one thing it would be another”, said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “They want to give their left-wing agitators enough time to get up and get organized”.

Only one Republican, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.

In order to clear those allegations up, on the eve of his nomination an Oklahoma state judge ordered Pruitt’s office to release a cache of thousands of emails relating to the energy companies he will soon be regulating.

As attorney general, Pruitt has sued the EPA and fought the agency trying to regulate the fracking boom in his state of Oklahoma.

Now that Pruitt has been confirmed, the question has been asked whether Scott Pruitt will live out, in his role as the head of the EPA, the tenets of his Christian faith.

“Scott Pruitt is now set to be the most unsafe EPA Administrator in the history of our country”, lamented the Sierra Club’s Executive Director Michael Brune. Collins, voting against him.

EPA staff are expecting a slate of executive orders that Trump is planning to sign shortly after Pruitt is sworn in, and according to Bloomberg his first acts are likely to be aimed at rolling back greenhouse gas rules for the power sector.

Pruitt will face a hostile environment at the agency he’s charged to lead.

“We don’t have all the information we need to make an informed vote on this nomination”, Sen.

Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) joined most Republicans in supporting Pruitt, while Sen. Due to his history with the EPA, and Trump’s adamancy to undo Obama’s policies with climate change, it doesn’t seem as if Pruitt’s acknowledgment will do any good for the future of the United States and our environmental impact. “Scott’s principled approach will respect the law and reinforce the EPA’s core mission to protect our air and water without unconstitutional and job killing overreach, which has brought tremendous harm to West Virginia during the past eight years”.