The EPA has announced a settlement with Macy’s over violations of hazardous waste regulations and as part of the agreement, training programs will be launched in Oklahoma and Texas. Macy’s agreed to correct the violations and said it will develop a program with the capacity to train 400 retailers in the two states. It will …
Add actor Robert Redford to the growing list of those critical of Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General who now runs the Environmental Protection Agency. Writing this week in Time magazine, Redford accused Pruitt of being “hell-bent” on not protecting the environment. Here is what he wrote: Forty-seven years ago, none other than President Richard …
The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma was awarded a more than $282,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for pollution-control programs. The announcement came through the EPA’s Dallas office but quoted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “Environmental protection is a partnership between EPA, states and tribes,” said Pruitt. “This grant will allow the Kickapoo Tribe the ability …
As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s defending his decisions in recent days to end the Obama-era ‘war on coal’ and its ‘sue and settle practice.’ Interviewed Tuesday on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, Pruitt cited the Obama administration’s ‘war on coal’ as overreach by the government, something he …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to do away with the practice of “sue and settle” at the agency draws the support of Sen. Jim Inhofe. “I am pleased with Administrator Pruitt’s memorandum today effectively ending the ‘sue and settle’ practice at the Environmental Protection Agency,” said the senator in a statement. “For the past eight …
Adversaries to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s calculations take issue with the way in which he measures certain financial figures to justify his proposal to roll back the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. They are particularly convinced that Pruitt has inflated costs while suppressing beneficial projections. On Wednesday, a news report by the Environmental Defense Fund …
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. “The war on coal is over,” said Pruitt, speaking before a Hazard, Kentucky audience at Whayne Supply, a company that sells coal mining …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General has been formally requested to investigate EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s “waste, fraud and abuse” in the construction of a secure, soundproof communications booth in Pruitt’s office. OK Energy Today reported on September 28 about Pruitt’s plans to install the $25,000 privacy cube. But three Democratic senior members of …
Oklahoma’s U.S. Senator, Jim Inhofe, praised the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. “I am pleased that President Trump has nominated Andrew Wheeler to serve as Deputy Administrator at the EPA,” said Inhofe. “There is no one more qualified than Andrew to help Scott Pruitt restore EPA to …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spending and travel costs have the attention of two senior House Transportation Democrats who want the Agency’s inspector general to carry out a probe. It’s what Representatives Peter DeFazio and Grace Napolitano asked in a letter this week to the inspector general. “This culture, which is reflected in travel and lifestyle …
