By Martha Roberts Scott Pruitt, President Trump‘s pick for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is withholding thousands of emails related to his ties to major energy interests who may have donated to his political causes. https://facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/10158252716670301/ Such stonewalling makes it difficult for senators to vote on his nomination since they can’t know if these […]
By Andy Rowell Early yesterday, work restarted on the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), less than a day after the Trump administration granted a final easement to allow the project to go ahead over the disputed land near the Standing Rock reservation. Army Corps to Grant Final Permit for #DAPL https://t.co/YbQSP4Dxn0 — Robert F. […]
Youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States filed a notice Thursday with a federal court in Oregon, naming Donald J. Trump as a defendant in their landmark climate case on pace for trial this fall. Plaintiffs have substituted President Trump as a named party in place of former President Barack Obama under the Federal Rules. […]
According to reports from Inside EPA, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency is considering shutting down the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), a move which would echo the president’s nominee Scott Pruitt’s move to close his own environmental enforcement unit as Attorney General of Oklahoma. “Scott Pruitt endangered the health and welfare of […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will grant Energy Transfer Partners the final easement to finish the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), according to a court filing Tuesday. The permit will allow construction for a tunnel under Lake Oahe, a reservoir that is part of the Missouri River. Breaking: Dept. of Army statement announces approval of […]
Days before the full Senate votes on Scott Pruitt’s nomination to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a national investigative watchdog group, alleges in a new lawsuit that as Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt has violated the Oklahoma Open Records Act for failing to provide public access to […]
U.S. companies are taking a stand in these politically chaotic times. So far, 127 technology firms are firing back at President Donald Trump‘s travel ban affecting immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. Facebook, Apple and Google are leading the fight against Trump's immigration ban https://t.co/6lcwkRfP2a pic.twitter.com/MoNxOmRmLP — Forbes (@Forbes) February 6, 2017 The movement […]
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump’s team listed the Atlantic Coast pipeline among the White House’s top priorities for infrastructure projects, an attempt to deliver on his campaign promise to invest in U.S infrastructure programs. Doomsday Clock Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight, Thanks to Trump https://t.co/yboK3r52ZT […]
It’s staggering to recall that one of Donald Trump’s main appeals to many of his voters was a pledge to “drain the swamp” and rid Washington of corruption. In only two weeks he has, instead, begun stocking the swamp with new and poisonous creatures, making it yet more deadly, much as sugar planters did in […]
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