All that scrutiny over his first-class travels and use of military planes caused Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to cancel a planned trip to Israel. He was scheduled to leave on the anniversary of his first year in office but called off the nearly week-long trip on Sunday. “We decided to postpone; the administrator …
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt observed his first year as EPA Administrator over the weekend. It was a year ago Saturday when he took over the job in the Donald Trump presidency. As Politico’s Morning Energy Report indicated, it wasn’t necessarily a happy occasion. “HARSH WORDS MARK END OF YEAR ONE: Saturday marks one year …
While the head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faces calls to be fired for the cover-up of $120,000 in taxpayer financed air trips, EPA director Scott Pruitt’s defending his own high-priced trips. In an interview with the Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire, Pruitt said security decisions were behind his use of first-class …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and the White House are left wondering what will be the fate of EPA deputy nominee Andrew Wheeler, the man chosen to be Scott Pruitt’s No. 2. In light of the White House decision recently to withdraw the nomination of Kathleen Harnett White to a top EPA job, Wheeler’s supporters …
Whenever EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt opens his mouth and talks about climate change and the impact of carbon emissions, his critics react quickly. Such was the case when Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General gave an interview to a TV reporter in Las Vegas. The New York Times carried the observations of reporter Lisa Friedman …
Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones apparently has a different opinion about the way contracts were handled by the Trust created to handle the relocation of homes and businesses at the Tar Creek Superfund site. He thinks there might have been criminal wrongdoing. But the Tulsa World reported over the weekend that a federal …
President Trump has decided to withdraw at least one of his controversial nominations. While Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine’s nomination to become Administrator at NASA is on hold because of opposition by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the White House has decided there’s too much opposition for Kathleen Harnett White to become chair of the White House …
News released this week that Oklahoma now is ranked second nationally when it comes to wind-powered electricity prompted Sierra Club leaders to offer criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. And to blast the oil and gas industry. In an email statement, Johnson Bridgwater, President of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Club said, “Despite wind energy’s …
If EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn’t think he took a beating Tuesday from Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, he took it in news coverage from environmental groups. Here are some of the headlines after Democrats grilled the former Oklahoma Attorney General: “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Fails Another Senate Test,” “Scott Pruitt’s …
Some of the environmental groups are pulling no punches in their attacks against former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now the man in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. Take the case of the Environmental Defense Fund which accuses him of leading the “Trump administration’s assault on public health.” Its website features a headline, “Pruitt’s …
