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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">{RLDF also received $25,000 in 2014 from the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association that represents investor-owned utility companies. As attorney general, Pruitt joined Oklahoma Gas & Electric, an EEI member, in suing the EPA to overturn its regional haze rule, which limits pollution near national parks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Altogether, the donations disclosed by JCN, RLP, Freedom Partners, and EEI add up to at least $780,000. RLDF reported receiving $1.8 million in donations in 2014 and 2015.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt’s own campaign finance filings reveal a heavy reliance on energy companies. A MapLight review found that his campaigns received $353,000 in donations from members of the energy and natural resources sector since 2001,}</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">e&e good</font></div><div><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the Sooner State's largest utility, requested a $1 billion rate hike three years ago, the power company found a ready ally in Republican Scott Pruitt, the state attorney general.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Public Service Company of Oklahoma, the state's second-largest utility, wasn't so lucky. The attorney general fiercely opposed the company's $130 million requested rate increase.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both utilities were seeking to upgrade their power plants to comply with U.S. EPA's rules on haze and mercury. And both were asking regulators on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for approval to recoup the upgrades' costs from customers.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he buzz saw PSO ran into here was more political," said Jim Roth, a former Democratic commissioner. "They made a commercial decision, but some at the Corporation Commission and the AG's office felt like no one should deal with Obama's EPA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pruitt was charged with representing consumers in both cases before the commission. <b>The big difference in his stance: where PSO agreed to work with EPA on a transition away from coal, OG&E fought the agency and favored expensive pollution controls designed to keep its coal furnaces humming.</b></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, Pruitt is poised to become the nation's top environmental regulator. President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead EPA is scheduled for a confirmation hearing tomorrow.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two rate cases offer a glimpse into how Pruitt has approached the complicated air quality rules he may soon be charged with enforcing.</font></p><h3 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One utility fought EPA and won Pruitt's support</font></h3><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The cases stemmed from Pruitt's two largely unsuccessful legal challenges to EPA rules governing mercury and haze.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pruitt sued the agency over its plan to cut haze in Oklahoma in 2011, saying EPA had overstepped its legal authority in rejecting a state plan and implementing its own. A federal appeals court disagreed, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Pruitt's request to hear the challenge.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Oklahoma attorney general then joined a series of states and industry interests to challenge the agency's standard on mercury emissions for coal plants. In 2015, the Supreme Court found EPA failed to take into account the cost of its standards but left the regulations themselves intact (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060021016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greenwire</i></a>, June 29, 2015).</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both utilities initially joined Pruitt's haze challenge, but PSO later dropped its lawsuit. In 2014, the power company entered into a settlement agreement with EPA, agreeing to close one coal plant and install pollution controls on another, which would be retired in 10 years. To replace the lost coal capacity, it agreed to buy wind and natural gas power.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OG&E, by contrast, stuck with Pruitt during his haze challenge. And when that proved unsuccessful, the utility unveiled a compliance plan that relied on keeping its coal plants running by installing a series of expensive pollution controls. They included scrubbers to limit sulfur dioxide, low NOx burners to curb nitrogen oxides and activated carbon injections to tackle mercury emissions.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Commission filings show Pruitt took a dramatically different approach in the two cases.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OG&E's request, the largest in the utility's history, was opposed by a coalition of senior citizens, environmental groups and large consumers. But not only did Pruitt favor OG&E's plan, he didn't even call a witness to support his position.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>"That's one of the more telling moments in Attorney General Pruitt's tenure. The consumer advocacy position fell silent,</b>" said Roth, who represented wind and hospital interests in the case. "In my 10 years at the Corporation Commission, both as a commissioner and practitioner on behalf of clients, I've never seen an AG stay silent on a case of that magnitude."</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To recoup the costs from consumers, OG&E had to convince state regulators the plan was the cheapest way to comply with EPA's standards. It failed, at least at first.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A coalition including AARP, the Sierra Club and Oklahoma Energy Results LLC, a group representing independent power producers and large consumers, disagreed with the power company. Retiring the coal units and replacing them with wind and natural gas would be a cheaper way of meeting EPA's standards, they argued. The utility also failed to account for future environmental regulations, which could make burning coal more expensive, they said.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Regulators on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission agreed and in 2015 rejected OG&E's plan.</font></p><h3 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fighting on behalf of fuel diversity</font></h3><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E&E News contacted the attorney general's office and OG&E, but neither returned requests for comment.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Critics say the case illustrates Pruitt's cozy relationship with industry interests. The Oklahoma attorney general has accepted nearly $37,000 in campaign contributions from OG&E and its employees,</b> according to the watchdog FollowTheMoney.org.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>PSO and its employees contributed $1,600 to the attorney general's campaigns.</b></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt became so engulfed in his battle against EPA, his detractors argue, he was willing to saddle consumers with the cost of keeping OG&E's coal plants running.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"While interventions into rate cases are complex and varied, what we do know is this: As attorney general of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt has repeatedly bent over backward to facilitate the continued burning and extraction of fossil fuels," said Al Armendariz, a former EPA regional administrator in Dallas who now serves as an associate regional director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others disagree. Installing new scrubbers was estimated to be half the price of new natural gas units at the time OG&E analyzed its options, said Thomas Schroedter, an attorney representing Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers, a coalition representing large customers in favor of the plan.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Likewise, scrubbers were estimated to be the cheapest compliance option for PSO, Schroedter said.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In both cases, he added, preserving coal units helped maintain the state's fuel supply.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I believe that these cases are telltale examples of Scott Pruitt's willingness and dedication to promote the public interest based on the information available at the time and also reflect his commitment to protect the interests of those he represents based upon the specific facts of the cases in a balanced and common-sense manner," he told E&E News in an email.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fuel diversity argument proved a hallmark of Pruitt's position in both cases. Soon after being rejected, OG&E returned to the Corporation Commission with a proposal to spend $500 million on scrubbers at the utility's Sooner coal plant. The investment was needed to comply with the haze standards, the utility contended.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for Pruitt, his deputies argued the move was needed to ensure fuel diversity, protecting consumers against natural gas price spikes.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This time, Oklahoma regulators agreed. "If additional OG&E coal units were to be retired or converted to natural gas, cost to customers would be higher and OG&E would no longer have sufficient coal-fired generating capability to protect customers from future natural gas and market price spikes and price volatility," commissioners wrote.</font></p><h3 style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">$500M to keep a 37-year-old coal plant burning</font></h3><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Sierra Club and Oklahoma Energy Results have appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court. Their argument: It makes little sense to spend $500 million on a 37-year-old plant that is so inefficient, the regional transmission operator idled it for most of the last year.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Still, Pruitt had hit on a winning argument. PSO, the utility that settled with EPA and agreed to buy more wind and gas, was seeking approval for its $130 million environmental compliance plan.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt's deputies challenged the company's settlement with EPA, saying the utility was predisposed to closing its coal units.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An administrative law judge, a technocrat tasked with offering a recommendation to regulators, disagreed. Scrubbers were nominally the least costly option for compliance, the judge noted. Yet the cost between installing scrubbers and retiring units was so minimal, it would have little impact on consumers.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, the judge reasoned, the move protected PSO against the possibility of future environmental regulations.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attorney general's office vociferously disagreed. The judge's opinion was lacking, Pruitt's deputies argued, because it failed to take into account the commission's 2016 OG&E ruling.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December, the Corporation Committee voted PSO could recoup $14 million from customers to pay for its upgrades, far less than the $130 million it initially sought.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt's legal challenges to EPA have made him a hero among those who believe the agency has exceeded its legal authority under President Obama. Pruitt has filed 14 lawsuits against the agency during his tenure, challenging everything from EPA's approach to the Freedom of Information Act to its rules on carbon emissions for power plants.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Mr. Pruitt respects and upholds the Constitution, and understands that many of the nation's challenges regarding clean air and water are best met at the state and local level," the American Energy Alliance, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and 21 other conservative advocacy organizations wrote in a letter to senators Friday. "It is, in fact the states that implement many of the nation's environmental laws, and for good reason."</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Pruitt's record in Oklahoma is worrying to others, who say his approach to the two utilities' rate cases underscores a flaw in his thinking.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a misunderstanding that cleaning up pollution is costly, said Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of engineering at Rice University not involved in the cases. Today, the falling cost of wind and solar means utilities can reduce emissions without burdening customers with higher bills, Cohen said.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pruitt's "making us worse off in terms of health and the environment, and at higher cost," Cohan said. "That is my concern nationally. We weaken pollution standards without benefiting the economy."</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Supporters say <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pruitt's</span> support of <span style="font-weight: bold;">coal</span> was rooted in a desire to preserve a diverse ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="59" data-ved="0ahUKEwjKuLnY_oHcAhWGnoMKHf9jA18QFQg7KAMwAw"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html&ved=0ahUKEwjKuLnY_oHcAhWGnoMKHf9jA18QFgg8MAM" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Pruitt Emails: E.P.A. 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It would target <span style="font-weight: bold;">coal</span>-fired power plants operated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Oklahoma Gas</span> and ... <span style="font-weight: bold;">Electric</span> Power-Public Service Company of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Oklahoma</span> at Oologah.</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="103" data-ved="0ahUKEwjKuLnY_oHcAhWGnoMKHf9jA18QFQhnKAgwCA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/22/oklahoma-attorney-generals-office-releases-7500-pages-of-emails-between-scott-pruitt-and-fossil-fuel-industry/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/22/oklahoma-attorney-generals-office-releases-7500-pages-of-emails-between-scott-pruitt-and-fossil-fuel-industry/&ved=0ahUKEwjKuLnY_oHcAhWGnoMKHf9jA18QFghoMAg" style="cursor: pointer; 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In general, though, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pruitt's</span> track record in <span style="font-weight: bold;">suing</span> the<span style="font-weight: bold;">E.P.A.</span>, which he did ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3Tn972VLVJEJ:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/scott-pruitts-dirty-politics+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3Tn972VLVJEJ:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/scott-pruitts-dirty-politics%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjKuLnY_oHcAhWGnoMKHf9jA18QIAhxMAk" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">==</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>