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 …
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 …
