President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to nominate Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general, to fill the top post at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Trump transition team confirmed on Dec. 7. One day later, the team announced that Andrew Puzder, a fast-food company executive, was the choice to head the Labor Dept.
Both nominees, if confirmed, likely would take their agencies in a new direction and seek to loosen regulations. Pruitt currently is involved in the multistate legal challenge to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and has said climate-change science is not “settled.”