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Trump EPA Chief Met Energy CEOs at Trump Hotel Amid Rollback

  • EPA Head Pruitt also met with coal, chemical, other executives
  • Schedule of Pruitt meetings in first weeks in office released
Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt

Photographer: T.J. Kirkpatrick/Bloomberg
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U.S. environmental chief Scott Pruitt met in March with oil executives over dinner in Trump International Hotel, just as he was moving to relieve the industry of one of its biggest Obama-era regulatory burdens: a requirement to curtail methane leaks. 

The session inside the hotel just blocks from the White House was just one of a series of meetings the Environmental Protection Agency administrator had with oil, coal and chemical leaders during his first six weeks on the job, according to newly released details of his schedule.