This article originally appeared on Grist.
Scott Pruitt, new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, had cozy ties with energy companies while serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, as The New York Times reported in 2014 and again this week. The Center for Media and Democracy just got ahold of thousands of emails from Pruitt’s time as attorney general. A few choice tidbits:
Pruitt’s office asked a vice President at Devon Energy, a big oil and gas company, how it should comment on an EPA report on methane emissions:
Pruitt’s chief of staff asked for a personal favor from another Devon vice president:
And that same Devon vice president invited Pruitt’s chief of staff out for lunch at a swanky restaurant:
If you’re looking forward to another email saga that just won’t end, you’re in luck. The Center for Media and Democracy expects to make another dump on February 27.