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Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma who is currently the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 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. In 2010 Pruitt was elected Attorney General of Oklahoma. In that role, he supported religious freedom laws and fought against abortion rights, gay marriage, the Affordable Care Act, and environmental regulations as a self-described "leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda". On February 17, 2017, the Senate confirmed Pruitt, by a vote of 52-46, to be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The vote was mostly along party lines, except for Republican Susan Collins voting against, and Democrats Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp voting in favor (John McCain and Joe Donnelly did not vote). While critics described him as a climate change denier, he has stated that he believes the climate is changing and human activity contributes to climate change.