Scott Pruitt, 14th Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Scott Pruitt is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17, 2017 to July 6, 2018. He was nominated for the EPA position by President Donald Trump and was confirmed by the United States Senate to lead the EPA in a 52–46 vote. By June 2018, amid a steady succession of revelations of misconduct, a growing chorus of conservatives had begun suggesting that Pruitt should resign. On July 5, 2018, Pruitt announced he would resign from office on July 6, leaving Andrew R. Wheeler as the acting head of the agency.

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• "Scott Pruitt." Wikipedia, revision of 22 July 2018. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pruitt > Accessed 28 July 2018.