{"id":27891,"date":"2017-02-07T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=27891"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:54:20","slug":"as-pruitts-confirmation-vote-to-lead-epa-nears-watchdog-group-sues-to-see-communications-with-fossil-fuel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2017\/02\/07\/as-pruitts-confirmation-vote-to-lead-epa-nears-watchdog-group-sues-to-see-communications-with-fossil-fuel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"As Pruitt\u2019s Confirmation Vote to Lead EPA Nears, Watchdog Group Sues to See Communications With Fossil Fuel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.42857142857142%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3455673-CMD-vs-Pruitt-Petition.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false\" title=\"CMD vs Pruitt Petition (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><p>The Center for Media and Democracy on Tuesday filed an open records lawsuit against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, accusing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/02\/02\/513028085\/senate-republicans-bypass-another-boycott-by-democrats-to-advance-epa-nominee\">Trump administration\u2019s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> of failing to provide public access to emails and other documents for more than two years.<!--more--><\/p><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscn.net\/dockets\/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=oklahoma&number=CV-2017-223&cmid=3498567\">lawsuit<\/a>, filed in Oklahoma County District Court, seeks records requested from 2015 through 2017 under <a href=\"http:\/\/media.okstate.edu\/faculty\/jsenat\/foioklahoma\/recordsprimer.html\">Oklahoma\u2019s Open Records Act<\/a>. The left-leaning Wisconsin-based nonprofit media watchdog, requested communications between the attorney general\u2019s office, fossil fuel companies and the Republican Attorney General\u2019s Association.<\/p><p>The group is also asking a judge for an injunction preventing the Oklahoma AG\u2019s office from destroying any documents related to its records request.<\/p><p>The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this week whether to confirm Pruitt as administrator of the EPA, a federal agency the Oklahoma attorney general has fought with lawsuits and vowed to reform.<\/p><p>Pruitt has declined interview requests until the confirmation process is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Media and Democracy on Tuesday filed an open records lawsuit against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, accusing the Trump administration\u2019s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of failing to provide public access to emails and other documents for more than two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491],"tags":[499,688,647],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27891"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27898,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions\/27898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}