A former industrial site that’s left groundwater contaminated in Midwest City is being suggested to be named an EPA Superfund site. The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week it is adding the former Eagle Industries site to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List of the nation’s most contaminated sites. “Communities get healthier and local …
A subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing Tuesday exploring the EPA’s Superfund program. Entitled, “Oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Program,” the hearing will be held by the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight. Three witnesses will testify including independent consultant Katherine …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt scoffs at the idea among environmentalists and national media that he’s using the office for greater political motives—maybe a run for Governor in Oklahoma. It’s what he made clear in a recent interview with The Oklahoman and a story published July 31. “To think somehow that…I would go through a …
The watchdog group American Oversight is asking the Office of Special Counsel to begin an investigation into the travel of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt back to Oklahoma. As stories pointed out in the past week, Pruitt’s travels back home to Tulsa cost taxpayers about $15,000 and it was estimated 90 percent of his travel days …
Operators of seven wastewater injection wells in Osage County are being asked to shut down their operations. Not because of earthquakes like those in areas where a surge of quakes has hit the state. These operators are being asked by the EPA to close because of the saltwater contamination in Bird Creek, contamination that drew …
Rolling Stone magazine has gone after Scott Pruitt and his newly-introduced doctrines at the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing him of “gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry.” In a piece headlined, “Scott Pruitt’s Crimes Against Nature,“ the magazine suggests he’s doing it totally for big oil and ignoring climate-change and facts supporting …
With a regional haze plan on hold for more than a decade in Arkansas, the EPA and the state are asking a federal appeals court for more time in reaching a deal over a pollution-reduction plan for coal-fired power plants. But environmental groups are opposing the request. The request of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court …
As the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt’s taken a lot of fire from critics. Environmentalists have explored and closely examined his communications with oil and gas groups, his lawsuits against the Obama administration’s EPA and his decisions regarding environmental issues in Oklahoma. Not until now has his religious faith been explored …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has political tongues wagging in Washington, D-C. after saying German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s move to phase out her country’s nuclear power plants is hypocritical. And she likely won’t be saying, “das gut” in response. “I just think the hypocrisy runs rampant,” he said in an interview with Politico. “To look at us …
Documents released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through a Freedom of Information Act request show EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spent nearly double what his predecessors did for security in their first three months in office. E and E News reported this week Pruitt’s security detail spent substantially more than Lisa Jackson and Gina McCarthy …
