WORDS BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
ENVIRONMENTAL CRUELTY During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to blow up the EPA, and by appointing Pruitt to run the agency, he has made great progress toward that goal.
IMAGE BY CJ BURTON
FOR SOME0NE whose entire political career has been built on an animosity to Washington, D.C., Scott Pruitt appears to have enjoyed the past 12 months of federal employ. He has been to Morocco, where he shilled American natural gas. There was a trip to a golf resort in Naples, Florida, for a meeting of the National Mining Association. And to lovely Kiawah Island to join a retreat of the American Chemistry Council. Some bureaucrats may be relegated to the sad desk lunch, but Pruitt is not among them. When executives from a coal company were in town, they took Pruitt to BLT Prime, the restaurant at the Trump International Hotel that is the unofficial clubhouse of the Make America Great Again crowd.