From Maryland to Texas, states have been granted emergency waives by the Environmental Protection Agency so they can ignore some clean-air requirements for gasoline. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says it will ensure an adequate supply of fuel throughout the South, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. He notified the governors in recent days saying the shutdown of about …
Six months after EPA chief Scott Pruitt was hit with his first lawsuit since taking over the giant agency, the case is still alive in the western district of the U.S. Courts in Washington state. It was in February when Columbia Riverkeeper sued Pruitt over environmental concerns and claims that his climate change actions would …
Scott Pruitt’s travels back to his home state of Oklahoma have caught up with him as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA’s Inspector General announced the start of an investigation into whether his numerous trips home, some at taxpayer’s expense have been a violation of federal ethics rules. But Pruitt’s office is …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt can expect more questions and digging by national reporters over the man he named to head an EPA task force on Superfund sites. That’s because Albert C. “Kell” Kelly, former chairman and CEO of Tulsa-based SpiritBank has been fined $125,000 by the FDIC. Kelly was named in May to chair the …
“Judicial Watch has caught the Obama EPA red handed issuing a series of half-truths and deliberately misleading information—pure propaganda.” The private group that is a watchdog over the federal government says it has documented proof that the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration misled the public in claiming that its 2015 Clean Power …
The EPA’s announced the start of research projects in 14 states including Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. The various projects will address what the agency called “priority environmental and human health problems.” The research will be carried out through partnerships between the EPA’s research office, regional offices and states. One of the partnerships is between EPA …
Some are describing a gas purge in Pawhuska as a “state of emergency.” And there is one, based on the executive order recently signed by Gov. Mary Fallin. State and federal agencies met Monday night with residents of the city after a gas leak was located last week in a well on the softball field …
The Oklahoma Sierra Club is accusing EPA chief Scott Pruitt of abandoning his home state to help Texas polluters. Johnson Bridgwater, director of the Sierra Club’s Oklahoma Chapter made the accusation. “Scott Pruitt just made it clear that he plans to abandon the residents of his home state to placate Texas polluters who don’t give …
No matter what Scott Pruitt does or says these days, political observers view him as an EPA chief who really wants another political office, and is someone intent on using the EPA to fulfill his plans. We’ve reported in recent weeks how the national press described him as a member of the Trump administration who had …
Those big truck drivers going up and down Interstates 35 and 40 in Oklahoma are getting a break from the EPA when it comes to greenhouse gas standards. The 2018 start date of the requirements has been delayed. The EPA faced a deadline on Thursday to respond to a lawsuit by the Truck Trailer Manufacturers …
