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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sounds like Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation vote to be the EPA director could happen sometime in the coming week. Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is hoping for a vote in the full senate before Congress hits the road starting Feb. 17 for a recess. “That’s my …
One of the so-called “midnight regulations” that was created in the last weeks of the Obama administration is being fought by Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. It is the EPA’s proposed Risk Management Rule which is designed to improve safety at facilities where hazardous chemicals are used, stored and distributed. At first read, …
