Governor Kevin Stitt fired Secretary of Energy and Environment Secretary Ken McQueen on Tuesday after he appeared at a federal court hearing concerning a nearly two-decade old lawsuit concerning poultry industry waste polluting the Illinois River.
The Oklahoman’s Murray Evans writes Stitt took to the social media platform X to explain his actions, saying the case was “a radical left attempt at backdoor regulation through litigation.”
Stitt named attorney Jeff Starling to replace McQueen as Energy and Environment Secretary. He serves on the state’s Task Force for the Study of Business Courts and recently was the chair of the Legal and Labor Reform Committee of the State Chamber of Oklahoma.
Read The Oklahoman story here.
