Environmental advocates watching in horror. Largest regulatory rollback over so short a time in the agency’s history.
Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start
In a sign of both Mr. Pruitt’s influence in the White House and the high regard in which Mr. Trump holds him, he will take a leading role in devising the legal path to withdraw from the 194-nation Paris agreement on climate change, a job that would typically fall to lawyers at the State Department.