Shady Former EPA Chief Now A Shady Coal Lobbyist

The Indianapolis Star reports:

Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, registered Thursday as a lobbyist with state regulators. Pruitt’s filings with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission identify him as a self-employed consultant and list RailPoint Solutions LLC as his sole client. His lobbying topics include “energy” and “natural resources.”

It’s unclear what, exactly, Pruitt is working on or who he is meeting with at the Statehouse, but he has ties to the Indiana coal industry. IndyStar’s attempts to reach him Thursday afternoon were unsuccessful. RailPoint Solutions does not appear to have a web address, nor is a company by that name registered to do business in Indiana. A search of Delaware business records, however, shows an incorporation date of Jan. 22.

We are SHOCKED that Scott Pruitt has registered as an energy and natural resources lobbyist since leaving the EPA.https://t.co/BlvysDNygH

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 19, 2019

What's Scott Pruitt, the former head of @EPA, doing now? Well — preparing to lobby for coal interests in Indiana, it appears. @indyemapolis has the scoop for @indystar: https://t.co/Z8Z2qItSUm

— Jamie Smith Hopkins (@jsmithhopkins) April 19, 2019

Remember how former @EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt was forced to resign after umpteen ethics scandals? Well now his protégé, 38-year-old Patrick Wyrick, is on the verge of being confirmed to a lifetime position as a federal judge. https://t.co/aXfNcaoYAk

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 9, 2019

Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, registered as an energy lobbyist in Indiana on Thursday as fossil-fuels interests there are fighting to block the proposed closure of several coal-fired power plants: https://t.co/tBAYZSAssI pic.twitter.com/UAQOjEbENd

— Tulsa World (@tulsaworld) April 19, 2019