Scott Pruitt’s claims of a need for additional protection while he was Administrator of the Environmental Protection agency were not justified according to a report released by the EPA’s Inspector General on Tuesday. The IG issued the report entitled “EPA Asserts Statutory Law Enforcement Authority to Protect its Administrator but Lacks Procedures to Assess Threats …
Efforts of the EPA to override an Obama-era plan to curb haze-forming sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in Texas could end up affecting the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Lawton, Oklahoma. That’s because the Texas haze plan was meant in part to curb the haze that made its way north into southern Oklahoma. …
Operators of a polymer plant in Louisiana have agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice to pay $365,500 in civil penalties for violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Region 6 office of the EPA in Dallas announced the agreement was reached with the Certain Teed Lake Charles Polymer …
Public hearings slated for three major cities by the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss proposals to weaken vehicle efficiency standards have been cancelled. The EPA called off the hearings for Washington, D.C., Detroit and Los Angeles after it announced another proposed change to the Obama-era carbon pollution rule. Word of the change of plans was …
The EPA attorney who made some controversial ethics decisions for former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leaving the agency in the coming weeks. Kevin Minoli, EPA’s principal deputy general counsel and designated agency ethics official plans to leave the agency at the end of September and join a Washington D.C. law firm. “I made this …
It’s unclear how a new federal court ruling will impact Oklahoma’s power over coal ash disposal, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has thrown out some Trump administration rules saying they weren’t stringent enough. The ruling came in a fight by environmental groups against the actions of the Trump …
Environmentalists don’t like what the Trump administration did in proposing the repeal of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. But one Washington, D.C. based group is among those who consider it a good move. Citizens Against Government Waste applauded the Environmental Protection Agency for proposing the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. President Tom Schatz said the …
The rolling back of some regulations against coal plants in Oklahoma and the rest of the nation was formally announced Tuesday by the Trump administration. The steps are considered to be the most significant weakening of the restrictive environmental rules created under the administration of President Barack Obama. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new Affordable Clean …
While the EPA still has Superfund sites in Oklahoma, it is removing a site in Greenville, Texas from its list of polluted areas. The former Esco Manufacturing Plant site is being removed from the Superfund National Priorities List, according to an announcement by the Environmental Protection agency. A statement issued by the EPA and the …
Today, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a grant to Team Up to Clean Up to create 4 acres of wetland habitat to mitigate pollution from stormwater runoff and flooding from the City of Eufaula, OK. The project will improve water quality in Lake Eufaula and …
