Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has spent years railing against and suing the federal government. Continuing his string of ironic cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump named Pruitt Wednesday to lead the EPA. “Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires,” Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a news release. Trump has called global warming a hoax made up “by and for the Chinese.”The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. In a column in the National Review in May, Pruitt wrote: “Global warming has inspired one of the major policy debates of our time.