Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s ties to the fossil fuel industry keep going deeper and deeper.
Six senators urged President-elect Donald Trump’s
Environmental Protection Agency pick on Wednesday to reveal his ties to
a secretive fundraising group that enables fossil fuel companies to
make anonymous donations to politicians.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt helped found the nonprofit
Rule of Law Defense Fund to collect campaign contributions from
companies like oil giant ConocoPhillips and coal mining titan Alpha
Natural Resources, The New York Times reported in December 2014. Pruitt now sits on the group’s board.
The group, which keeps the identities of most of its donors secret, received $175,000 in 2014
from Freedom Partners, a business organization that organizes political
activities for the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who run
the privately held chemical and oil giant Koch Industries.
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