EPA Chief Loses a Round in Court on Release of Climate Change Studies

A federal judge on Friday scolded Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt for failing to respond to a nonprofit’s Freedom of Information Act request for climate change studies Pruitt claimed bolstered his skeptical views. The ruling favoring Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility stemmed from comments Pruitt made on the CNBC TV show “Squawk Box” back in March 2017, in which he said “I would not agree” that human activity adding carbon dioxide to the air “is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.” He added that “there is tremendous disagreement about of [sic] the impact” of “human activity on the climate.”