EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says his agency will reconsider key parts of the Obama administration rule covering the handling of coal ash. It comes after an industry trade group filed suit asking the agency to take another look at the rule which considers coal ash, or as the EPA calls it Coal Combustion Residuals, to …
The EPA has started investigating the chemical plant disaster that followed Hurricane Harvey flooding near Houston. It has made a request of the French company that owns the Arkema Inc. facility where chemicals exploded and caught fire. Reports indicate the Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to determine whether there might have been violations of the …
A government regional haze plan that would have required major upgrades to two coal-fired power plants in Utah has been put on hold by the Denver federal appeals court, the same court that rules in cases involving Oklahoma. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put the plan on hold as the judges indicated they …
Before Hurricane Irma became the second major hurricane to hit the U.S. in two weeks on Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency extended a fuel waiver for 38 states through the end of the month. The waiver focuses on summer reformulated fuel requirements through Sept. 30 said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in an interview. “It was …
A controversial decision when EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was Oklahoma Attorney General two years ago remains a puzzle to some of his critics. And current Attorney General Mike Hunter is adding to the mystery in refusing to release a state audit of spending activities by a former board in charge of the buyout of homes …
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 …
