Warren wants Perry to quit pipeline company board

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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants former Energy Secretary Rick Perry to leave the board ofdirectors of a major oil pipeline company.Calling Perry's decision this month to rejoin the board of the general partner of Energy Transfer PartnersLP "unethical," the Democratic Massachusetts senator wrote in a letter her office released Friday thatPerry's immediate resignation "would send a strong and necessary message about government ethics andyour own integrity."As Energy secretary, Perry helped carry out President Trump's agenda, including aggressively promotingfossil fuels and rolling back environmental policies, which Warren said "directly benefitted" companies likeEnergy Transfer, whose projects include the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.