The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency does not usually channel money to political candidates. But that’s exactly what Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) was planning to do, keeping his two political action committees (PACs) operational even as he approached Senate confirmation hearings to head the federal EPA.
But amid backlash over plans to raise money through the PACs, which have historically been heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, a lawyer for the two committees announced that they will be dismantled.
“The PACs missions are no longer relevant and we don’t want them to be a distraction during the confirmation hearings,” Charles Spies, counsel for both committees, told E&E News, which first reported that the PACs would be able to continue operating.
E&E found that nearly half the funding for Liberty 2.0, a super PAC, came from “energy interests.”
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