Texas AG ready to wind down anti-EPA crusade with Trump rising

摘要

One of the Obama administration's chief agitators is looking forward to mounting fewer court offensives under President-elect Donald Trump. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has a dozen pending legal challenges against U.S. EPA, said he's "hopeful," given Trump's choice of fellow Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma to head the agency, that "we'll have the opportunity to address these issues so that we don't have to continue litigation."