2016 was the hottest year ever recorded, smashing records set in 2014 and 2015. This marks the third consecutive year of record-breaking heat, a first in the modern era. 2016 is the hottest year on record by a wide margin, 1.69 F (0.94 C) warmer than the 20th century average. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1422510414428558/ expand=1] Deke Arndt, […]
By Lauren McCauley Not willing to sit idle as Donald Trump and his cabinet take office and roll out an avowedly pro-fossil fuel, anti-regulation agenda, campaigners are preparing for a multi-faceted affront to the new administration. 10 Questions the #Senate Must Ask #Pruitt & #Tillerson https://t.co/3p0OOqVOl1 @CarlPope #PollutingPruitt #Rexxon @sierraclub @greenpeaceusa — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) January […]
Scott Pruitt—Donald Trump‘s controversial pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—is under fire for his supposed ties to a nonprofit controlled by billionaire oil tycoons, Charles and David Koch. Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the EPA, has been known to parrot oil and gas industry talking points.Flickr POLITICO has received a […]
“Nobody really knows” if climate change is real, Donald Trump told Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News Sunday, despite decades of established science. We hope you enjoyed the show today w/ President-elect Trump as he spoke in his first Sunday show interview since winning the election. #fns pic.twitter.com/bosONSG6mJ — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) December 12, […]
By Dominique Browning The nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is unprecedented. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it is a travesty—because Pruitt has vigorously used his office to derail and obstruct clean air safeguards that are broadly supported by Americans in red and […]
Donald Trump has appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The conservative Republican has close ties to the fossil fuel industry and has waged numerous legal wars against the EPA and President Obama’s environmental regulations, including the president’s signature Clean Power Plan. Pruitt, who was elected as Oklahoma’s […]
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