In a humiliating clip released of an interview with Ed Henry of Fox News, Scott Pruitt is pressed hard to explain why he directly defied Donald Trump by coordinating massive raises for his staff through an obscure loophole -- after the Trump White House rejected those raise. Pruitt attempts to pass the buck, blaming someone else, but he doesn’t actually know who. According to reporting by the Atlantic and government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by E&E News, Pruitt lied.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, CNN reports that a memo released by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, embattled among numerous scandals over unethical behavior and questions about corruption, has stripped regional experts of their authority to properly enforce the Clean Water Act in an unprecedented move that will threaten drinking water all over the country.
Tampa Electric today announced plans to retire Unit 2 of its coal-burning units at its Big Bend Power Station and repower Unit 1 with fracked gas by 2021.
Memphis, Tennessee, -- Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In honor of Dr. King’s legacy, the Sierra Club Chickasaw Group of West Tennessee is announcing a renewed focus on environmental justice work.
The drumbeat of scandals and embarrassing headlines created by Scott Pruitt for the Trump Administration has become relentless. Here’s just the latest round-up and some questions that Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to be asked.
Today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders should clarify whether Donald Trump will hold Pruitt accountable -- like he did with former HHS Secretary Tom Price and former VA Secretary David Shulkin -- for his blatantly unethical behavior and call on Pruitt to resign.
Washington, DC-- Moments ago, the Trump administration reportedly announced it will force quotas on immigration judges to speed up and order more deportations. The order comes just after the president tweeted yesterday that he intends to take protections or a deal for Dreamers off-the-table - and use any means to push his xenophobic campaign-oriented anti-immigration agenda and a multi-billion dollar border wall.
Washington, DC -- News reports indicate that the Department of the Interior will withdraw plans to increase fees for visitors to U.S. national parks. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke had previously proposed to increase fees to as much as $70 at many popular national parks. Thanks to overwhelming resistance from hundreds of thousands of people who wrote in opposition to the plan to increase fees, Zinke has seemingly been forced to drop the proposal and announce that the Department of the Interior will pursue other options to raise revenue for national parks.
Earlier this month, Siwatu-Salama Ra, Co-Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC), was sentenced to two years in prison for defending herself and her young child from an attacker.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly taken unprecedented action on behalf of an oil company by blocking a shareholder resolution on climate change.
FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) -- together with its subsidiaries FirstEnergy Generation and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company -- announced its bankruptcy today after years of short-sighted business decisions and executive mismanagement that resisted investing in clean, renewable energy or its workers.