Article snippet: MORE will resign from his position leading the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday, following months of high-profile controversies regarding his spending, ethics and management at the agency. In a tweet Thursday, MORE confirmed Pruitt's departure, saying he's accepted the administrator's resignation. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this,” Trump tweeted. Trump said Pruitt will be replaced on Monday by EPA Deputy Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former energy lobbyist who was confirmed in April for the post. In comments on Air Force One, Trump said there was no "final straw" that explained Pruitt's departure. He said the Cabinet member had indicated he did not want to be a "distraction." “He’ll go on to great things and he’s going to have a wonderful life, I hope. But he felt that he did not want to be a distraction for an administration that he has a lot of faith in,” Trump said. He said the decision has been in the works for “a couple of days." "We’ve been talking about it for a little while,” Trump said. In his resignation letter to President Trump on Thursday, Pruitt cited “unrelenting attacks” as his reason to leave the agency. “It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also, beca... Link to the full article to read more