WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club began airing a TV ad on Fox and Friends and Morning Joe calling for Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt. The ads will air on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. The ad is part of the Boot Pruitt campaign, a coordinated effort among several groups aimed at forcing Pruitt from office.
Pruitt's contempt for the taxpayer and their money knows no bounds. Yesterday, on Mark Reardon’s radio show Scott Pruitt said he was “dumbfounded by the kind of media narratives that these things are somehow not the focus,” he went on to try and justify his $120,000 first class trip to Italy on the basis of having a jam-packed schedule. Pruitt was so busy, he only had time for one pasta making class and a private tour of the Vatican. It’s not just “very important meetings” (and pasta making class) that Pruitt is recklessly spending our taxpayer dollars on. Earlier this year Pruitt brought his security detail with him to Disneyland and to watch the University of Oklahoma Sooners lose in the Rose Bowl. We’re a bit dumbfounded as to how he still has his job.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, at the White House press briefing, a reporter with the Washington Post asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about cabinet abuses of power by Scott Pruitt, David Shulkin, and Ben Carson. Sanders repeatedly said that all three were “under review”, but did not clarify whether the White House is reviewing these cases independently of individual reviews and investigations at their respective agencies.
The Environmental Protection Agency has told employees at the National Exposure Research Lab (NERL) in Las Vegas that they are moving up the closure date for the lab by two years, which is forcing employees to quickly decide between resigning, retiring, or relocating across the country. NERL focuses on monitoring and preventing human exposure to pollution and toxic chemicals. This is just the latest attack from Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in favor of a corporate polluter agenda and against the scientists and research that protects Americans from pollution.
This is the third time Dynegy is seeking revisions to the Multi Pollutant Standard. The latest proposed changes come after eight months of backdoor talks between Dynegy and Gov. Rauner’s Illinois EPA, whose Director came under fire in the Chicago Tribune last week for his close ties to the company, highlighted by a lawsuit about Illinois’ failure to ensure conflict of interest safeguards are in place. Wednesday’s hearing is the first time the public will have the opportunity to weigh in on the proposal in front of the Illinois Pollution Control Board.
Conservation groups filed an amended complaint today to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency for failing to ensure that Illinois’ Clean Air Act state implementation plan includes measures to prohibit conflicts of interest on state boards and agency leadership overseeing regulatory matters on air pollution. The groups sued EPA this fall for failing to ensure the same protective measures are in place in Mississippi and Alabama.
On Tuesday, Cathy Stepp was named by the Trump administration to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Chicago. Stepp was once the director of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources under Republican Gov. Scott Walker where she built a track record of rolling back environmental regulations.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a rich history of improving air and water quality throughout the US, but the Trump Administration has proposed slashing the Agency’s budget by 31 percent. These cuts would cause significant harm here in Nevada. This Friday, former EPA staff and clean air advocates will speak to defend the Agency, which was created 47 years ago on December 2nd, 1970, by Republican President Richard Nixon.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the EPA announced it will maintain the current renewable fuel volumes for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) through 2018 and biomass-based diesel volumes through 2019.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee voted to advance the nominations of Kathleen Hartnett-White for Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Andrew Wheeler for Deputy Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along party lines.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, Andrew Wheeler, nominee for Deputy Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, and Kathleen Hartnett-White, nominee for Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, testified in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
During the hearing, Wheeler and Hartnett-White repeatedly dodged answers to questions and denied the impacts of human activities on climate change and of pollution on human health.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Today, the New Orleans-based group A Community Voice and the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stick to a firm and final deadline for compliance with the Formaldehyde Emissions Standards for wood products made, imported and sold in the United States.