The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Feb. 17 as the administration readies executive orders to ease regulation on drillers and miners.Senators voted 52-46 to approve Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who Senator John Barrasso, a Republican and the head of the chamber’s environment committee, said would reform and modernize the EPA.Republicans have said the agency has killed jobs in coal and in oil drilling by limiting emissions and nearly all Republican senators voted for him.
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