Category: EPA

EPA Offers Glowing Description of Scott Pruitt’s New Job

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was set to hold his first meeting with EPA employees on Tuesday. It was slated to be a webcast to all employees. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency wasted little time in creating a website for Pruitt’s new job. Here is how it appears on the EPA website: “On February 17, 2017, …

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Pruitt Gives First Interview After Taking Over at EPA

Maybe Scott Pruitt won’t be as bad as environmentalists and Democrats think as he is now in charge of the direction where the Environmental Protection Agency will head in a Trump administration. In his first interview since being nominated last year, Pruitt told the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel there is much to do hitting …

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Pruitt Faces Tuesday Deadline to Turn Over Thousands of Emails in 2-year old Open Records Request

The deadline for former Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now the Chief Administrator of the EPA to submit a response to a more than two-year old open records request is Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court. In a lawsuit (CV-2017-223) filed by the Center for Media and Democracy based in Madison, Wisconsin, Oklahoma County District Judge …

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Senators Lobby Pruitt for E15 Change

On the very day he was confirmed then sworn into office as Administrator of the EPA, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt received his first official communication from some U.S. Senators requesting help in ending an EPA regulation. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Roy Blunt (R-Missouri), Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and John Thune (R-South …

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Oklahoma Democrats Predict Disastrous Future of EPA with Pruitt in Charge

Scott Pruitt’s confirmation by the U.S. Senate as the new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency brought diametrically opposed reactions from Oklahoma’s Democratic and Republican political parties. No surprise how the GOP reacted. “The OKGOP is incredibly proud to announce that Scott Pruitt has been confirmed,” started the announcement. The party said he had served …

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Environmentalists Fuming Over Pruitt’s Leadership of EPA

While Oklahomans who supported Scott Pruitt’s nomination to be EPA Administrator think he will be an outstanding leader of the EPA, environmentalists have just the opposite view. And his Friday confirmation in  the U.S. Senate left them bitterly disappointed. “Despite calls to delay vote until court-ordered emails are released, Oklahoma AG and fossil fuel industry …

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Pruitt Becomes EPA Administrator

The fight is over for Scott Pruitt to take over as the new Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  He was confirmed in a Friday vote of the U.S. and immediately sworn into office, giving up his hold job as Oklahoma Attorney General. Democrats in the Senate slow-walked his confirmation as much as they …

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Advocates Await EPA Action on Pollutant Levels in Illinois River

Nearly 8 years after efforts started to create limits for some pollutants in the Illinois River and Tenkiller Lake, the project remains unfinished, according to a report in the Muskogee Phoenix. The newspaper also reports Ed Brocksmith, Secretary-Treasurer of Saving the Illinois River has yet to hear from the Environmental Protection Agency after requesting information in …

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Pruitt’s EPA Confirmation Vote this Week?

Sounds like the nomination of Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA could be voted on in the U.S. Senate this week.  However, Democrats are still asking for a delay as they want to get his office emails sought in an open records request. They want to see communications between Pruitt and any oil …

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One Vote Scott Pruitt is Sure to Get in Confirmation to Run EPA

One vote that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will likely get during his confirmation vote in the U.S. will come from Alabama’s new U.S. Senator, Luther Strange. And there’s nothing strange about it either. That’s because Sen. Strange, the man appointed to take over when Sen. Jeff Sessions became U.S. Attorney General was Alabama’s former …

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