WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Scott Pruitt, the attorney general for the state of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pruitt, 48, has been a booster of the fossil fuel industry and an outspoken critic of what he derides as the EPA's "activist agenda."
Representing his state as attorney general since 2011, Pruitt has repeatedly sued the EPA to roll back environmental regulations.
Pruitt sued the EPA over the agency's recent expansion of water bodies regulated under the federal Clean Water Act, which has been opposed by agricultural industries.
Trump's selection of Pruitt to. . .
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