Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposing a change in the way his agency regulates and protects the nation’s waterways from pollution. In a memo released by his office, the former Oklahoma Attorney General asked the EPA’s Office of Water and Regional Administrators to draft a proposal restricting the agency’s ability to revoke permits issued …
The more the national media digs into Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency, the more allegations of “politics” they find in what President Trump has called the “D.C. Swamp.” The latest comes from the New York Times which says Pruitt used his position at the EPA last year to consider hiring a friend of …
An August hearing by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be interesting not just because EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will testify, but how his long-time mentor U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe reacts with him. Inhofe recently said he had a lot of questions about Pruitt’s ethics challenges and and even suggested that perhaps, …
The environmental activist group Earthjustice indicates it will file a lawsuit to stop EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from transferring oversight of coal ash contamination to Oklahoma. “If anyone believes this decision will protect Oklahoma’s residents from coal ash pollution, than I have some oceanfront property in the state to sell you,” wrote Jennifer Cassel, an …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met with Kansas corn and ethanol leaders on Tuesday who bent his ears about what the agency’s doing to the Renewable Fuel Standard. They complained he’s only undermining the RFS, hurting rural America and helping Big Oil. Their complaints were made as Pruitt left Washington, D.C. to visit the East Kansas …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recently responded to a heckler at one of his speeches by saying the left doesn’t want to talk about the truth. The former Oklahoma Attorney General, was speaking at a Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C. when a woman protester interrupted him. She held up a …
While the ethics issues mount up for EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, they apparently aren’t worrying his boss, President Donald Trump. For the President praised Pruitt this week for the job he’s doing. “EPA is doing really, really well,” said the President at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Pruitt was on hand when …
The longer Scott Pruitt stays as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the more ethics problems government investigators and members of congress are finding. It’s not just the situations that arose in Oklahoma when Pruitt was Attorney General and a state Senator from Tulsa, but this week at least two ethics challenges were reported. One …
The national media can’t seem to understand why EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has a close relationship with a coal executive. They focus on Pruitt taking premium tickets to a University of Kentucky basketball games from billionaire coal baron Joseph Craft. Craft runs Alliance Resource Partners, a massive coal company with headquarters in Pruitt’s hometown of …
No dollar amount was revealed, but the Environmental Protection Agency announced this week it is offering assistance to help the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma under a Trump Administration plan to promote agriculture and rural prosperity. The assistance is through the Local Foods, Local Places initiative that helps communities reinvest in their neighborhoods and improve quality …
