Portending threats to efforts aimed at reining in climate change, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Oklahoma Attorney General and fossil fuel industry ally Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , his transition team said Wednesday. The planned appointment, as Politico writes, would put 'one of the agency's most hostile critics and a skeptic of climate change science at its helm.' According to 350.
Further, as Food and Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement Wednesday, 'Pruitt was part of an effort to combat the 17 state Attorneys General standing up to Exxon's climate deception.' 350.org's Boeve said Pruitt 'is a man who cares more about the profits of coal company CEOs than the health of our children or the future of our planet.