Six years and $29 million later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it is unclear whether hydraulic fracturing truly contaminates drinking water as some environmentalists and residents claim. The EPA recently released its six-year long study, stating that in some circumstances, fracking does present a risk to drinking water. But the giant agency also said there …
One of the topics Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt might have to answer during his confirmation hearing to become Environmental Protection Agency Administrator is why he eliminated the Environmental Protection Unit in his state office six years ago. The subject was raised in a recent Environment and Energy article by reporter Mike Soraghan who noted …
The Sierra Club has widened its nationwide fundraising effort on the backs of Donald Trump and the man he has nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency—-Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt. “Get ready to be disappointed,” wrote Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club in his latest email pitch asking for contributions. “We’re launching …
Count Justin Haskins as a supporter of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency under the new Donald Trump administration. Haskins happens to be Executive Editor of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute and calls Pruitt “the right person to fix broken EPA.” Writing in the Sunday edition of The …
Conservative writer Charles Krauthammer calls Donald Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt “the most incendiary nomination by far” of those picked by Trump to be leaders in his incoming administration. In his Dec. 16 column titled “The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the Agencies,” Krauthammer wrote, “Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it …
Donald Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt promises to be one of the more controversial confirmation hearings in his new administration and opponents have already laid out their plans. For instance, the Sierra Club has started a five-figure, online ad campaign in a bid to convince seven Republican and three moderate Democratic Senators …
“A full-fledged environmental emergency.” “A professional climate denier.” “This is a four-alarm fire.” Those are comments from Democrats in the U.S. Senate in describing Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and his nomination to be the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. But as E and E News reported in its recent Climate Wire, Republicans …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s already giving an indication of the changes coming at the Environmental Protection Agency if and when he is confirmed to be the new chief administrator. In a Thursday morning interview with Radio Oklahoma Network affiliate KWON, Pruitt explained his fight with the EPA is based on overreach. “It’s this view …
Oil and gas groups in Oklahoma came out Wednesday applauding Donald Trump’s selection of State Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency. As for environmentalists—-that’s another story. “For the past eight years, we’ve seen executive overreach put increased unnecessary and burdensome place to the detriment of not just Oklahoma’s oil and …
If Donald Trump’s announcement of picking Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency, it is a sign that the direction of the giant agency and what Pruitt and others have called “over-regulation by the EPA” will change drastically. The 48-year old Pruitt will have to be …
