Democrats in the U.S. Senate are still fighting EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt over the move to eliminate the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, sending him a letter demanding answers to what his plans are to replace it. Twenty-three Democrats sent him a recent letter with eight questions about his future plans to replace the Clean …
An EPA program that helped finance cleanups of Oklahoma City’s Bricktown, a new baseball park in Tulsa and dozens of other sites across the state was the subject of reauthorization efforts by Senators Jim Inhofe and others. Inhofe’s a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He and others filed the Brownfields …
What Politico’s Morning Energy Report is saying about two Oklahomans. “A retiring veteran climate change specialist has sent EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt a letter warning him of a sea change in agency morale and suggesting he needs to provide better reasons for changing course on policy if he wants the support of the …
Judging by the headlines, Sunday wasn’t a particularly good day for Scott Pruitt, now the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His appearance on Fox News with Chris Wallace didn’t turn out to be a good performance when it came to pollution and stripping the EPA of Obama-administration-created rules and regulations. “Fox News’ Chris …
A bill by Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas to urge transparency and scientific integrity at the Environmental Protection Agency won approval in the U.S. House on Thursday. H.R. 1431 is also known as the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2017 and was passed on a 229-193 vote. “Sound science must be the cornerstone of …
Speculation mounted immediately Tuesday after President Trump signed an executive order to rewrite former President Obama’s controversial and legally-challenged Clean Power Plan. While the order put a halt to the government’s own actions taken when Obama was in the White House, others think the order will also create courtroom battles. Battles that some think could …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is labeling the response of environmentalists to President Trump’s order rewriting the Obama Clean Power Plan as “hysteria.” It’s what he said in an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News, adding he expects more “hysteria” to come as a result of the executive order signed Tuesday. Inhofe said he …
Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency as well as the U.S. Energy Department are set to take some deep cuts in spending under recommendations from the Trump White House, according to POLITICO’s Morning Energy Report. POLITICO obtained a budget breakdown showing the EPA would lose $247 million. It includes a loss of $48 million in to …
President Trump is set to eliminate another climate change move of the Obama administration. He is preparing to sign an executive order on Tuesday wiping out the Clean Power Plan and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt welcomes the move. It’s what Pruitt indicated Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” He called …
If EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt thought his problems over his confirmation hearing were finished, they are not. He has been named in a complaint filed with the Oklahoma Bar Association accusing him of violating the Oklahoma Rule of Professional Conduct. The complaint was filed this week by Kristen van de Biezenbosk, an Associate Professor at …
