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 …
The EPA’s extended the comment time on the agency’s efforts to repeal that controversial WOTUS rule, the one Scott Pruitt and Oklahoma leaders fought when it was proposed by the Obama administration. Pruitt, the former State Attorney General is also part of a video released by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. “This record being made …
EPA officials were back at Oklahoma’s Tar Creek Superfund site this week, touring the northeast corner of the state as part of a Tribal Lands Forum conference held in Tulsa. Participants discussed progress with the site and future goals for the continuing cleanup, according to a release from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 office …
The EPA has put a Wyoming man on a national fugitive and most-wanted list for illegally dumping radioactive oil field waste in North Dakota. The agency has a manhunt underway for James Ward, 55 who was indicted in April on wire fraud and conspiracy charges. He allegedly set up a company to dispose of filter …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt says the recent draft of a new climate report contains what he calls a “false narrative” of the fears that he and President Trump might dismiss the findings. It’s what he told a Des Moines, Iowa TV station over the weekend. “The report doesn’t impact the process,” said Pruitt in a …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s spokesman is taking some heat for allegedly threatening to call security on reporters who were trying to see Pruitt during an event last week on the University of North Dakota campus. The incident prompted the National Press Club to express concern with President Jeff Ballou tweeting his group is “looking into” …
