Investigating Power
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Saturday that people are absolutely justified in wanting President Donald Trump to abolish the agency.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
Last Friday, in a near party-line vote, the Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator. A swell of controversy surrounded the decision, with an Oklahoma judge ordering about 3,000 of Pruitt’s emails be released to the public a day prior to the vote.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
The end of clean power: Newly confirmed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, whose nomination was forced through without seeing thousands of secret emails between him and oil and gas companies, made clear that the Clean Power Plan is going away and didn’t even mention climate change once in his first speech.
Thousands of pages of newly released emails reveal how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt closely collaborated with oil, coal and gas companies backed by the Koch brothers to roll back environmental regulations during his time as Oklahoma attorney general. We speak to Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which successfully sued for the emails to be released.
In June 2013, a top lobbyist at Devon Energy, an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas giant, sent one of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s top officials a draft letter objecting to recently proposed federal regulations on fracking.
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President Trump’s new Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, may have received emails on a private email account despite telling senators that he only does official business with his government-issued account.
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Rachel Maddow looks at new reporting on EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s Oklahoma e-mails, obtained by The Center for Media and Democracy, that shows not only his ties to the oil and gas industry but also his role in a horrific botched execution.
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A Madison-based watchdog group says it has started to receive documents from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s time as Oklahoma Attorney General. But the group says Pruitt’s former office has asked a judge to review other records before their potential release.
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On Wednesday, two GOP lawmakers from Nevada faced angry voters who complained about Trump, the GOP agenda, and Sen. Dean Heller’s vote to confirm Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
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In his new role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott’s [sic] Pruitt’s job is to enforce rules that he’s been fighting — together with the oil and gas industry — for years. Pruitt became famous for fighting federal environmental regulation in Oklahoma when he was the state’s attorney general, and thousands of emails made public this week show he routinely collaborated with oil and gas companies in their efforts to buck the EPA and other agencies.