"A federal judge Friday ordered EPA to produce documents related to Administrator Scott Pruitt's claims dismissing human activity as a primary contributor to climate change.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that the agency failed to respond to a watchdog group's Freedom of Information Act request seeking the records.

"Although more than one year has elapsed since the plaintiffs submitted the FOIA request, EPA has conducted no search for any responsive records, not produced any records to the plaintiff," Howell wrote.

At issue: a 2017 interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" in which Pruitt stated that human activity is not a "primary contributor" to climate change. He also said that "there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact" that human activity has on global warming."

Amanda Reilly reports for Greenwire June 4, 2018. [2]