By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, got grilled today at his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. U.S .Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) was among those doing the grilling.

Duckworth thinks Pruitt is too cozy with Big Oil and so she pressed him hard on protecting the ethanol industry here in Illinois.

“I would rather burn American made, American grown corn and soybeans in my gas tank than I would oil from the Middle East,” Duckworth said. “I’ve already been to a war fought over oil in the Middle East and I don’t intend to allow us to do that.”

“The discretion authority, the waiver authority of the [EPA] administrator needs to be judiciously used,” Pruitt responded.

Duckworth didn’t like the answer. “That very answer concerns me because you’ve not actually said that you’re going to stick with it.”

Pruitt also testified that he does not think climate change is a hoax.

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