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Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. Pruitt represented Tulsa and Wagoner Counties in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 until 2006. In 2006, Pruitt launched an unsuccessful campaign to receive the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. He was elected to serve as Attorney General of Oklahoma in 2010. As Attorney General of Oklahoma, Pruitt has supported religious freedom laws and has fought against abortion rights, gay marriage, the Affordable Care Act, and environmental regulations. For the latter cause, Pruitt's website described him as "a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda." On December 7, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump selected Pruitt to be his nominee as the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. If Pruitt is confirmed by the United States Senate as EPA Administrator, he will need to resign as Attorney General of Oklahoma. Although The New York Times has described him as a climate change denier, he acknowledged during his EPA Administrator confirmation hearing that "the climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner."