Senate EPW Democrats raise ethics concerns over Pruitt

Democrats on the Senate environment committee are raising a host of concerns with EPA's ethics office about Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, arguing that he has only made “little more than pro forma representations” about how he will handle potential ethical problems concerning his time as Oklahoma's top litigator. Pruitt's Jan. 3 ethics agreement to EPA's designated ethics official says that for one year, he will seek authorization from the agency's ethics office to participate...