"The $43,000 phone booth that then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt installed in his office may not have been worth all the headaches it caused him.

He placed only one phone call to the White House, newly released records from the agency show. It lasted five minutes.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency resigned last month after coming under fire for how he spent tax dollars and treated his staff. He made the five-minute call on Jan. 29, according to Verizon phone logs released in response to litigation filed by the Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group."

Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis report for the Washington Post August 20, 2018. [2]