Farmers in Oklahoma and across the country are being given an exemption by the EPA from reporting emissions from animal waste and other pollutants. The Environmental Protection Agency made the announcement this week after EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed the final rule on Monday. It changes the most recent version of the FARM Act which …
More staffers are leaving the Environmental Protection Agency following the recent resignation of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the agency. And the latest, according to national reports, were forced out by the White House because of their loyalty to Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General. In other words, they got the boot. The latest report …
In a move that could directly affect coal-fired power plants in Oklahoma, the Environmental Protection Agency this week finalized a rule on how coal ash is stored. How they might affect Oklahoma is yet to be determined. Just a few weeks after the EPA was roundly criticized by environmental groups for turning over coal-ash regulations …
Scott Pruitt isn’t the only one to pack his bags and leave the Environmental Protection Agency in the past week. Some of his aides apparently have followed the doctrine of “where you go, I go.” With the former Oklahoma Attorney General’s departure last week as EPA Administrator, some of his top assistants have departed too. …
The man who succeeded Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, delivered his first address to employees and the media on Wednesday. At he quickly went off script and addressed his prior work with the coal industry. “I did work for a coal company and I’m not ashamed of the work …
The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its plans to clean up the old site of the Lorraine and Wilcox Oil Refineries in Bristow. The Agency announced it is proposing early action to address tank waste and lead additive source contamination at the refinery which was declared a Superfund Site. The action will allow the …
In a parting move against Obama-era environmental rules and regulations that he so steadfastly fought, Scott Pruitt left the EPA by signing a loophole to allow production of diesel freight trucks with high emissions. His decision came before he resigned Friday as Environmental Protection Agency Administration and it undid the Obama administration rules that were …
Now EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has conservative radio and tv talk-show host Laura Ingraham against him. She’s calling for him to be dumped by President Trump. Her criticism of the former Oklahoma Attorney General intensified this week when she tweeted, “Pruitt is the swamp. Drain it.” The tweet came after the Washington Post reported thiw …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s the latest member of the Trump administration to be verbally attacked while out in the public. It was this week at a Washington D.C. restaurant where a woman confronted him and called on him to resign. Kristin Mink put her encounter with Pruitt on her Facebook page saying he “was 3 …
If the chief ethics officer of the Environmental Protection Agency gets his way, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt could face even more investigations. Kevin S. Minoli has sent a letter dated June 27, 2018 to David J. Apol, Acting Director and General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics requesting a series of investigations into possible …
