President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that he does not agree with his potential boss that climate change is a hoax.

“I do not believe climate change is a hoax,” Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

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