By Stacy Malkan British writer George Monbiot has a warning for those of us trying to grasp the new political realities in the U.S. and the UK: “We have no hope of understanding what is coming until we understand how the dark money network operates,” he wrote in the Guardian. Corporate America may have been […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Elliott Negin The two dozen nonprofit groups and Senate committee members defending Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, have at least two things in common. Like Pruitt, they’re climate science deniers. And, like Pruitt, most of them are funded by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire […]
Lawmakers in Indiana have introduced a new measure that could wipe out the state’s net metering system within a decade and squash the state’s burgeoning solar energy sector. For the past 12 years, Indiana’s net metering policy has credited homeowners and businesses with rooftop solar systems for the excess power their panels generate and send […]
By Richard Eskow When the history of Donald Trump’s Administration is written, people may point to the appointment of a Koch brothers’ operative to a little-known White House position as a turning point in Trump’s evolution from unorthodox Republican candidate to doctrinaire corporate politician. https://twitter.com/EcoWatch/status/819374628724502528 Meet Trump Legislative Director Marc Short Think of it as […]
By Alex Kotch The Trump White House is going to be very, very Koch-y. During the 2016 presidential campaign, billionaire industrialists and Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch made headlines by refusing to endorse a candidate. But ads in U.S. Senate races paid for by Koch-linked independent political groups hurt the image of Donald Trump’s […]
Last, week, under the cover of a media bliss-out except among Koch funded right-wing channels, the House of Representatives passed a bill which would effectively repeal future standard setting under every important environmental, public health, consumer protection, labor standards, occupational safety and civil rights law on the books. The bill, called the REINS Act, requires […]
As Donald Trump’s administration begins to take shape, we’re learning more and more about the Koch puppets that Trump is appointing to #StaffTheSwamp. The other day, an Environmental Defense Fund post called out Trump’s EPA Admin nominee Scott Pruitt for possible impropriety and what looks like “pay-to-play” situations, where Pruitt, on multiple occasions, received money […]
568k 
233k 
41k 
Subscribe 
