Emails acquired by the Sierra Club, as allotment of a accusation filed adjoin the EPA, appearance abundant communications amid Pruitt's arch of staff, Ryan Jackson, and lobbyist J. Steven Hart, in which it appears Hart approved to adviser and access EPA decisions -– efforts Hart and Pruitt had beforehand denied. In addition email barter from June 2017, Hart emails Jackson the adventures of Dennis Treacy, the admiral of the Smithfield Foundation -- the accommodating arm of Smithfield Foods, which is a aggregation Hart was representing. A agent for Smithfield "these activities were not undertaken" at the company's direction, but rather in requests by Treacy, who they said was associated with "a amount of added ecology organizations." "Having banquet with Burr tonight," Hart tells Jackson in the November 2017 email, apropos to Senator Richard Burr. "Should I try to move him or wish to just accord up?"