Recently reported by E&E and Nature, the Environmental Protection Agency is zeroing out funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, leaving several ongoing studies about the impacts of pollution on child development in limbo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Inspector General (EPA OIG) released its audit of former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s travel expenses. The report found that Pruitt spent $124,000 on first class tickets, excessive travel expenditures, and his unprecedented security detail. The audit recommends the EPA recover the funds from Scott Pruitt. Now lead by coal lobbyist and Scott Pruitt’s handpicked deputy, in a statement Andrew Wheeler’s EPA defended the disgraced Administrator’s travel expenses and made it clear it would not follow the IG’s recommendation to recover the wasted taxpayer money.
Washington, DC-- Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released interim guidance for cleanup of two toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFOS and PFOA in groundwater. The proposed guidelines are meant to inform the clean-up of contaminated sites, but some critical limitations will hinder their implementation by local, state and federal governments. PFAS chemicals are likely to be present in drinking water for more than 100 million Americans.
Read the letter from 155 NGOs opposing the Dirty Water Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in an interview with Major Garret on CBS This Morning, former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler claimed he’s focused on clean water despite rolling back clean water protections, and wrongly stated that climate action isn’t urgent because its major effects will not start until 50-75 years from now.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, as reported by E&E, Myron Ebell and 36 anti science groups sent a letter to Donald Trump in support of his Committee on Climate Security led by notable climate denier, William Happer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in his speech at CERAWeek (Cambridge Energy Research Associates), EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that “that those who oppose U.S. fossil fuel production are actually taking the most environmentally preferable energy source off the table for the rest of the world.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in a 52-47 vote, the Senate confirmed Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to be EPA Administrator.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This morning, ahead of the Senate’s confirmation vote of Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, Sierra Club began running Facebook ads targeted towards Senator Gardner in Colorado, Senator Tillis in North Carolina, Senator Toomey in Pennsylvania, Senator Collins in Maine, and Senator Alexander in Tennessee urging them to vote no on Wheeler’s confirmation.
This week the Senate is expected to vote on Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation to EPA administrator. In his short time as acting administrator, Wheeler has rolled back or attempted to roll back the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the clean car standards, Waters of the U.S. and methane safeguards -- just to name a few. He’s also proposed a lackluster plan to protect 110 million Americans from contaminated drinking water. Here’s a breakdown by the numbers of what that means for public health:
The last few days have revealed the three key prongs of the Republican climate plan came, and it is as bad as you think.
According to reporting by E&E, fossil fuel executives from Murray Energy Corp., the American Petroleum Institute, the National Mining Association and more are spending thousands at Trump’s DC hotel -- or what DOE spokeswoman Sara Marie Kinney called “Republican Disneyland.”