EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s promising his agency will consider thousands of public comments as it reviews regulations and whether to eliminate some. It’s what he told E and E News at an Earth Day event in Dallas. “Those comments are going to be taken very seriously because that’s our job,” said Pruitt, the former Oklahoma …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s heading to Missouri with his “Back-to-Basics” tour, visiting a coal-fired power plant on Thursday. His visit to the Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. Thomas Hill Energy Center near Moberly will come a week after he went to a Pennsylvania coal mine and declared the war on coal was done. Missouri U.S. Sen. Roy …
If it’s not a letter from Democratic Senators making demands, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s latest concern is a lawsuit filed by the watchdog group Judicial Watch. But it’s one that could be considered friendly for the former Oklahoma Attorney General. It’s filed suit in an effort to obtain communications records of those EPA officials who …
Democratic U.S. Senators who fought Scott Pruitt’s confirmation as Administrator of the EPA aren’t giving up their fight. Four more have written the former Oklahoma Attorney General demanding he reveal what he discussed with members of the Republican Attorneys General Association days before he withdrew an EPA information request called burdensome by oil and gas …
As Scott Pruitt pushes ahead at the Environmental Protection Agency, he’s doing it with more than 350 unfilled positions. And the list includes more than 100 scientists who specialize in environmental science, life science and physical science. The list was revealed in a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Sierra Club and reviewed …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was met with whoops, shouts and cheers at a Pennsylvania coal mine when he boldly declared, “The war on coal is done!” It was at the Harvey Mine in Sycamore, Pennsylvania where he met with the miners and declared an end to the regulatory assault carried out by the Obama administration …
As Politico’s Morning Energy reports, EPA Administrator and former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s had face-to-face meetings with 17 governors, state and regional environmental officials and five congressional lawmakers. The five in congress are Rep. Lamar Smith who chairs the U.S. House Science Committee, Rep. David McKinley and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, Luther Strange and …
Environmentalists claimed a victory on Tuesday as an appeals court unanimously reversed a Bush-era farm pollution rule. In a 3-0 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority through rewriting the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) – aka Superfund — …
A community meeting will be held in Bristow on Thursday to discuss an abandoned oil refinery which was designated as a Superfund site in 2013. The Lorraine/Wilcox Oil Company off U.S. Highway 66 is the subject of the meeting hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The …
Not just Democrats in the U.S. Senate are bombarding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt with requests, but so is California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. He is the latest to demand copies of emails and virtually every communication Pruitt has made but this time, the request focuses on ethics issues. Becerra’s request is a formal Freedom of …
