"Scott Pruitt, an EPA administrator under former President Donald Trump, has filed to run in the coming special election to replace retiring Sen. James Inhofe (R).
If Pruitt wins in November, Senate Republicans will have essentially replaced one high-profile proponent of environmental deregulation with another.
Although Pruitt’s 17-month tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency was plagued by a series of public scandals—many of which concerned his personal conduct while in office—he remains popular in Oklahoma, according to Hudson Talley, a political consultant at Ascend Action in Oklahoma City."
Stephen Lee reports for Bloomberg Environment April 15, 2022.
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/18/2022
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