EPA Chief Scott Pruitt says there’s one way to make sure Superfund cleanups continue even with a 31 percent cut in funding for his agency’s budget. His idea? Make the polluters pay. It’s what he said in a recent TV interview. “The great thing there is that there’s private funding. There are people out there …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to delay compliance dates for the EPA’s oil and gas industry methane emissions standards is supported by Sen. Jim Inhofe. “Our oil and gas industry was already voluntarily educing its methane emissions, which went down 40 percent between 2006 and 2012 without any federal intervention,” said the Senator. “I applaud …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to delay implementation of some Obama administration Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act Rule is supported by Oklahoma U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin and Sen. Jim Inhofe. Pruitt is delaying the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements by 20 months, rules that apply to chemicals. The Obama administration proposed the public …
No word yet how this might affect the state of Oklahoma, but the EPA this week notified governors that it’s delaying for another year any decision on which areas of the U.S. don’t meet the 2015 ozone standards. Letters were sent to Gov. Mary Fallin and others from EPA Chief Scott Pruitt who said he needs …
Things were so bumpy Tuesday for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, you couldn’t blame him to still be smarting over the appearance. He was repeatedly interrupted by the hosts including Joe Scarborough who demanded a ‘yes or no’ answer from Pruitt to the question whether he had discussed …
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is beginning to get a taste of the kind of legal action he brought against the EPA when he was Oklahoma Attorney General. A coalition of seven Democratic attorneys general filed a legal challenge this week of the EPA’s decision to delay new safety rules on a common pesticide …
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s had to make some corrections to his Sunday morning TV talk show claims that the coal sector added almost 50,000 jobs since the fourth quarter. On Monday, a spokeswoman for the agency said Pruitt was actually referring to the broader mining sector including other industries. His critics were quick to pounce …
A Federal Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. has upheld the right of the EPA to withhold data on power plant wastewater discharges. The ruling by the D.C. Circuit came in a challenge by the Environmental Integrity Project, the Sierra Club and Earthjustice. They claimed they were entitled to the data under a provision of the …
Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General who now commands the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made a visit to the state on Friday, reviewing environmental work in Osage County. He came to inspect pollution discovered nearly a year ago at Bird Creek on the Chapman Ranch. “It’s our agency doing what it’s supposed to do, coming …
More than 60 environmental groups want EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to maintain approaching deadlines for oil and gas operators to cut their emissions of methane. Representing conservation, health, labor and even faith groups, they sent a letter this week to Pruitt. They’re asking he keep in place the Obama-era standards requiring oil and gas companies …
