From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is the Daily.

Today, from the moment he was appointed, Donald Trump's EPA administrator has been cast

by environmentalists as an ideologue on a mission to destroy the very agency he runs.

He sees it differently, a conversation with Scott Truitt.

It's Friday, February 2nd.

Administrator, I think for most of us, our introduction to you came when you were a

attorney general of Oklahoma.

So take us up to that point in your career.

What was the story of Scott Truitt before you became attorney general?

Where does it start?

Well, you know, I don't want to go back too far, but so I grew up in Kentucky and spent

most of my teenage years and through high school and into college aspiring to be a major

league baseball player.

Found out that junior and senior year after some surgeries and whatnot that that wasn't

going to happen and started thinking about other things and law school took me to Oklahoma.

So you know, the journey to the attorney general was something that I didn't anticipate

either.

And once you become attorney general, you make a series of decisions about where you're

going to use your resources.

And you end up suing the Environmental Protection Agency 14 times.

And I wonder why?

Well, fundamentally as we look at the Environmental Statutes, Michael, that have been passed by Congress

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