Senate Confirms Coal Lobbyist as #2 at EPA as Trump Moves to Slash Clean Air Rules
As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting criticism for a controversial condo rental and calls for his resignation, President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the agency to significantly scale back “one of the strongest science-based public health protections we have” while the Senate confirmed a former coal lobbyist to serve as Pruitt’s second-in-command. “This is…