Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott, now in his capacity as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency issued a directive on Tuesday putting an end to advisory groups from receiving millions of dollars in the form of EPA grants. The idea is to end what some perceive as a conflict of interest for those same scientists …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces more scrutiny from his Democratic critics in the U.S. Senate as they are demanding to know how he came to any scientific conclusion to repeal the Clean Power Plan. Led by Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, 18 other Democrats wrote Pruitt recently asking for all of the documents, including emails, memos …
The Sierra Club has launched a statewide poll in Oklahoma of the work being done by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and whether he’s using his position to run for the U.S. Senate or Governor in the state. “We invested in this polling to get a sense of whether people in Pruitt’s home state are concerned …
A public meeting is planned for next month in Bristow concerning the EPA’s Superfund Site at the former Wilcox Oil Company refinery. The EPA along with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality will hold the community meeting. Officials of both agencies will be on hand to answer questions regarding cleanup with the site was added …
The EPA has announced a settlement with Macy’s over violations of hazardous waste regulations and as part of the agreement, training programs will be launched in Oklahoma and Texas. Macy’s agreed to correct the violations and said it will develop a program with the capacity to train 400 retailers in the two states. It will …
Add actor Robert Redford to the growing list of those critical of Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General who now runs the Environmental Protection Agency. Writing this week in Time magazine, Redford accused Pruitt of being “hell-bent” on not protecting the environment. Here is what he wrote: Forty-seven years ago, none other than President Richard …
The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma was awarded a more than $282,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for pollution-control programs. The announcement came through the EPA’s Dallas office but quoted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “Environmental protection is a partnership between EPA, states and tribes,” said Pruitt. “This grant will allow the Kickapoo Tribe the ability …
As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s defending his decisions in recent days to end the Obama-era ‘war on coal’ and its ‘sue and settle practice.’ Interviewed Tuesday on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, Pruitt cited the Obama administration’s ‘war on coal’ as overreach by the government, something he …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to do away with the practice of “sue and settle” at the agency draws the support of Sen. Jim Inhofe. “I am pleased with Administrator Pruitt’s memorandum today effectively ending the ‘sue and settle’ practice at the Environmental Protection Agency,” said the senator in a statement. “For the past eight …
Adversaries to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s calculations take issue with the way in which he measures certain financial figures to justify his proposal to roll back the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. They are particularly convinced that Pruitt has inflated costs while suppressing beneficial projections. On Wednesday, a news report by the Environmental Defense Fund …
