WIKIPEDIA, ERIC VANCEA number of recent news reports have detailed questionable practices by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, prompting Democratic lawmakers to ask for an investigation into the propriety of certain activities.
Among a number of concerns is Pruitt’s townhouse rental in Washington, D.C., that raised some eyebrows—both for its bargain, $50-per-night fee and for the property’s owner, the wife a man who runs a lobbying firm, Williams & Jensen. That lobbying firm’s client, The New York Times reports, benefitted from an EPA decision last year while Pruitt was residing at the home. In March 2017, the agency approved a pipeline expansion by energy firm Enbridge, which is represented by lobbyists at Williams & Jensen.
“The people at the E.P.A. are charged with following the science and facts as it applies to individual decisions,” Cynthia Giles, an assistant administrator during Barack Obama’s administration, tells the Times. The appearance of exchanging favors with lobbyists “is just not good ...
