Pruitt Submits 1 Email In Response To Court Order For 10 Months' Worth Of Records

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s emails are back in the spotlight after the agency responded to a request for the documents with what watchdogs say is a red flag.

Asked for documents over the course of a 10-month period, the EPA sent only one lone email from Pruitt’s official account, leading some to question whether he is corresponding using a private email address.

While EPA officials have said Pruitt conducts the bulk of his discussions either in-person or by phone, oversight groups raised the alarm Friday morning amid reports that the agency had provided only one email in response to a court order. According to Politico, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in September after the EPA initially failed to respond to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The EPA’s final offering was a small one: between February and December of 2017, the agency indicated Pruitt sent only one email. In a September 1 correspondence, the official responded to a Capitol Hill Consulting Group consultant who had invited him to a dinner organized by the American Council for Capital Formation. Pruitt additionally forwarded an email on November 14 containing a speaking engagement request, with the forwarding address redacted by the EPA.

In total, the documents provided for the 10-month time period amount to 25 pages containing the two emails and nine text messages.

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