Emails

The Senate voted 52-46 on Friday to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one day after a judge in Pruitt’s home state ordered him to turn over thousands of emails to a watchdog group.

Emails sent in late 2010 and early 2011 show that collaboration between Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) was unusually close, considering that regulators are expected to keep arms-length relationships with the companies they oversee.

Bowing to pressure from its critics, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Monday offered more emails containing questionable communications between some of its now-terminated executives and state regulators. It also promised to turn over during the first quarter all pertinent emails since 2010.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Christopher Abruzzo, along with the agency’s top attorney, resigned on Thursday following a rapidly unfolding scandal involving sexually explicit emails that were exchanged among dozens of former and current staffers in the state attorney general’s office.