Former SpiritBank leader Albert Kelly wasn’t the only top EPA official to resign this week amidst growing ethics investigation at the agency led by former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. And it’s clear Democrats on Capitol Hill are out for blood. So did Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, a former Secret Service agency who was head of …
Seventeen states have banded together to file a lawsuit challenging the EPA for reversing car emissions rules. Oklahoma is not one of them. The suit was filed over the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to drop clean car emissions standards for model years between 2022 and 2025. It accuses the EPA of failing to follow …
While EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faced U.S. House members during congressional hearings Thursday, he still has the support of Oklahoma U.S. Sen. James Lankford. Pruitt’s been on a rough and stormy ride in the past several months, facing one allegations after another over the way he’s running the giant agency. The former Oklahoma Attorney General …
One congressman who sits with Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas on a House committee is demanding that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt be ousted. Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat from Virginia made it clear in an email recently sent to Newsweek. “Scott Pruitt is now surrounded by a historic level of scandal. This is what happens …
The U.S. Senate confirmation of lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to be number two in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rang up another name linked to Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. Wheeler, a lobbyist for the coal industry is also a former staffer to Inhofe. He was chief counsel for Sen. Inhofe from 1995 to …
Some of the national media won’t let up on digging up what they can about Scott Pruitt ever since he left Oklahoma as Attorney General and became Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The latest report? It focuses on Pruitt’s supposed ego in which he reportedly urged the EPA last year to redesign its memorabilia …
An email now suggests Scott Pruitt maybe did sign off on controversial pay raises for an aide he brought with him from Oklahoma when he took over the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s what The Atlantic reported this week and the email is in direct contradiction to what Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General told Fox …
How much national news coverage is Scott Pruitt getting these days over things at the EPA? Obviously, far more than he wants and ever expected to get. Just consider how Politico’s Morning Energy Report covered things last Friday: WHAT COMES NEXT? EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fared seemingly well Thursday, at least comparatively – appearing in no …
First there was the pricey-flights he took around the world. Then there was the leasing of a condo owned by an energy lobbyist in Washington D-C. Now EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general from Oklahoma faces grilling over pay raises he got for two aides he brought from Oklahoma to help him at …
One Washington D-C news group maintains the White House is closer than ever to perhaps firing Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Politico says it’s learned White House chief of staff John Kelly had considered dumping the former Oklahoma Attorney General over Pruitt’s travel expenses. But Kelly wants to be sure and …
