Scott Pruitt’s latest ethics issue over renting a Washington D-C condo from an energy lobbyist didn’t stop him this week from announcing a change in the nation’s fuel emissions standards. In doing so, he also took a swipe at the Obama administration and its EPA. “The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong,” said Pruitt about the …
“I think he’s in real trouble.” US Senator on Scott Pruitt’s latest ethical issue. Politicians believe Scott Pruitt could be on his way out at EPA following reports last week he had lived for several months in a Washington D-C condo co-owned by the wife of a top lobbyist for energy firms. “I don’t …
It’s not just environmentalists who want Scott Pruitt to step down as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Count John Podesta, former counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton among those making the call. Writing in an editorial this week in the Washington Post, Podesta expressed his disgust …
Some eyebrows are being raised after documents released under the Freedom of Information Act showed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met with an Israeli company last year at the request of multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Sometime after the meeting, the EPA signed a research agreement with the company to study the firm’s atmospheric water generator, a device …
Oklahoma’s Sierra Club has become part of a nationwide campaign called “Boot Pruitt,” an effort that includes a petition drive calling for the former Oklahoma Attorney General to resign. Much of the effort focuses on Pruitt’s travel expenses and use of first-class accommodations. “Previously, as Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Scott Pruitt took numerous first class flights …
The conservative political website Hot Air has decided it’s time to compare the travel expenses of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt with those of his predecessors. The website’s reporters did some comparison of the expenses that Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General has run up in his first year in office. While national news organizations have …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt says how the government has handled the Tar Creek Superfund site is “really unacceptable.” It’s what he said in a roundtable meeting with several reporters from news organizations including the Tulsa World, noting how the site dates back to the early 1980s. “You don’t list a site in the mid-1980s and …
The Yukon School District is the only school system in the state to receive part of $8.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace or retrofit hundreds of older diesel school buses. Yukon’s share of the money totals $200,000 which will help replace 10 buses in the school district’s fleet. The EPA announced …
EPA Czar Scott Pruitt might not be liked by environmentalists and critics of the Trump White House, but he’s supported by conservatives. And even the New York Times paints the former Oklahoma Attorney General as a man with strong political ambitions. Strong enough to maybe make a run for the U.S. Senate or governor in …
More transparency. It’s what Scott Pruitt is promising as head of the EPA, according to a report by Radio Oklahoma Network’s Oklahoma Farm Report. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt addressed over 300 members of the Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, and Alabama Farm Bureaus Wednesday, pledging his commitment to “providing America’s farmers with the transparency and regulatory certainty they …
