Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (second from left) join President Trump during an event in Cincinnati on June 7. “When the administrator travels, he takes commercial flights,” EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said Wednesday, explaining that the one charter flight and three government flights were due to particular circumstances. The EPA provided documents that outlined how its Office of General Counsel had given legal authorization for each trip. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) listed details on the noncommercial flights in a Sept. 26 letter to the EPA’s inspector general. Pruitt and three staff members arranged a private air charter on Aug. 4, on a trip from Denver to Durango, Colo.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2017 23:15 UTC