"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt sought and acted upon a recommendation from a major Trump campaign donor for an individual to head the agency's leading science body, internal documents show.

Doug Deason, a Dallas businessman and financial backer of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, gave the EPA a list of names of candidates for Pruitt's Science Advisory Board in August, after being asked by Pruitt personally for recommendations.

Deason's involvement in making suggestions for the board, of which one — Michael Honeycutt — was appointed, was unearthed in a trove of internal EPA emails obtained by the Sierra Club through a Freedom of Information Act request and first reported on by Politico Friday."

Miranda Green reports for The Hill June 8, 2018. [2]