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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Trump administration has incited a war on science that “defies logic” and resembles the censorship enforced by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Australia’s chief scientist, Alan Finkel, said Monday. New Bill Would Block EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases https://t.co/WtKItMefJQ @BusinessGreen @GreenCollarGuy — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) February 6, 2017 Warning that “science is literally under attack,” Finkel […]
Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill to curtail the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to address climate change. The “Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2017” (HR637) would amend the Clean Air Act so that: “The term ‘air pollutant’ does not include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.” The […]
By Andy Rowell What a difference a few months make. Last year Exxon was on the ropes, reeling from the news that the company was under investigation for lying to the public and shareholders about the risks of climate change in the scandal that has become known as #ExxonKnew. Furthermore, last October Exxon faced the […]
By Ben Jervey Earlier this week, staffers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received their first official email from the new administration. “Changes will likely come and when they do, we will work together to implement them,” wrote Don Benton, a senior White House adviser who is now leading the so-called “beachhead” team for […]
Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have suspended their panel’s rules to force through Scott Pruitt‘s nomination to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The maneuver was made only one day after all 10 Democratic members of the committee announced a boycott over President Donald Trump’s EPA pick. The boycott was […]
[Editor’s note: Click here for the latest: Groups Denounce GOP’s Move to Force Through Trump’s EPA Pick] All 10 Democratic members of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee boycotted a vote on Scott Pruitt’s nomination for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Wednesday, citing serious concerns over his stances on climate change and […]
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