Scott Pruitt’s been gone eight months as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and some on Capitol Hill are still taking his name in vain. The latest example was reported by POLITICO’s Morning Energy report and quoted an Iowa U.S. Senator. GRASSLEY HAMMERS ‘FIRED PRUITT’ OVER SMALL REFINER EXEMPTIONS: Sen. Chuck Grassley lacerated former EPA Administrator Scott …
More than 100 speakers were scheduled to be heard by the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday and Thursday as it holds a public hearing in Kansas City. The hearing is on the Trump administration’s plans to scale back the number of streams and wetlands receiving federal protection under the Clean Water Act. Among the speakers …
Five oil-state senators are putting the pressure on Andrew Wheeler, the man nominated to permanently replace Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Oklahoma Senators are not a part of the move. Instead five Republican Senators, Ted Cruz of Texas, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana …
The Environmental Protection Agency reported the lowest number of penalties in 2018 in more than a decade. The agency confirmed it had assessed lower penalties for violations of pollution laws. The EPA stated it obtained a total of $3.95 billion in injunctive relief in fiscal 2018 which was the lowest amount in 15 years. One …
Along party lines, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted Tuesday to move the nomination of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe’s friend, Andrew Wheeler to run the EPA to the full Senate. The vote was 11-10 on making the recommendation of Wheeler, a former lobbyist for a coal company who also once …
The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to take over permanently as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He is likely to get a favorable recommendation as Republicans control the committee and outnumber Democrats who believe Wheeler has too many potential conflicts of …
A man who was considered to be one of the founders of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency died last week in Virginia. Douglas Costle was the EPA administrator during the Carter administration. Previously, he was a senior staffer for President Nixon’s advisory council on reorganizing the executive branch and led the study that recommended founding …
Before he underwent grilling from Democrats, Andrew Wheeler, the President’s nominee to head the EPA was introduced by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. The Senator applauded Wheeler’s nomination when it was made in November of 2018. “Thank you Mr. Chairman,” said Inhofe in making the introduction. “I would like to introduce my friend Andrew Wheeler …
A judge in Washington, D.C. has refused to delay a lawsuit challenging the EPA’s move to allow Oklahoma to regulate its own coal ash disposal. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates denied a motion by the Environmental Protection Agency to delay the lawsuit filed by Waterkeeper Alliance Inc., Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency and the Sierra …
