Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, arrives to meet with President-elect Donald Trump in New York City in December. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)An Oklahoma judge on Thursday ordered Scott Pruitt, the state’s attorney general and President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, to turn over thousands of emails related to his communication with the oil, gas and coal industry. “We shouldn’t have had to go to court to force the release of emails that were requested more than two years ago. “Attorney General Pruitt has been more thoroughly vetted than any nominee for EPA administrator,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo. During that same hearing, Pruitt told lawmakers that as EPA administrator, he would steer the agency away from what he called an era of overzealous and unlawful regulation during the Obama years.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2017 00:11 UTC