Leonardo DiCaprio met with Donald Trump after the President-elect named Scott Pruitt to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to The Associated Press.
The actor and environmental activist joined the CEO of his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Terry Tamminen, met to discuss how jobs tied to environmentalism can help the economy.
Tamminen issued a statement to The Associated Press about the Wednesday meeting.
"Today, we presented the President-elect and his advisors with a framework — which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism — that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure," Tamminen said. "Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation."
The Washington Post reported that Trump's pick to run the EPA has denied climate change in the past, writing in the National Review in May that "scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind" and debate about climate change is "far from settled."
The AP reported that at the end of the 90-minute meeting, DiCaprio gave Trump a copy of his environmentalist documentary "Before the Flood," which Trump said he would watch, according to a person The AP said was familiar with the conversation but could not speak publicly about it.
Tamminen sounded positive after the meeting.
"We look forward to continuing the conversation with the incoming administration as we work to stop the dangerous march of climate change, while putting millions of people to work at the same time," he said.
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