Becerra sues EPA to gain agency chief ’s documents

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra on Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging it failed to fulfill a request for documents that might indicate whether Administrator Scott Pruitt has a conflict of interest.

Pruitt has said he would recuse himself from some cases in which he had sued the EPA while he was Oklahoma’s attorney general, but an agency memo indicated Pruitt might not abstain from EPA rulemaking on the same issues that are the subject of his litigation.