Investigating Power
Senate environment panel Democrats are urging GOP leadership to delay an imminent floor vote on Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) Scott Pruitt’s nomination to be the next EPA administrator, saying senators should wait until after an Oklahoma court holds an “emergency” hearing on a suit seeking documents from his tenure as AG.
Democrats are using a court order in the hopes of blocking a floor vote later this week on President Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.
EWG joined several members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in urging Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to postpone a vote on Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation to be Environmental Protection Agency administrator. The request comes as an Oklahoma court has scheduled a hearing for later this week over a lawsuit filed by the Center for Media and Democracy, which seeks disclosure of email communications between Pruitt’s office and oil and gas industry officials.
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to delay a vote to confirm Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, citing a pending public records request that could divulge more information about him.
Democratic members of the Senate Environment Committee on Tuesday pushed to delay a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they need to review a pending open records lawsuit against the nominee, while other Senate Democrats demanded more information on Carl Icahn’s role in the Trump administration.
Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s pick for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is withholding thousands of emails related to his ties to major energy interests who may have donated to his political causes.
Ahead of a Senate confirmation vote this week, environmental groups in Missouri want U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt to speak up about President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
The office of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has failed to respond to at least nine requests for e-mails between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies like Koch Industries.
Goings on at Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency concern those of us old enough to remember when unfettered industry used our air and water as an open sewer.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
As the Senate moves to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency this week, the ACLU, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and the Center for Media and Democracy filed a legal challenge yesterday to Pruitt’s failure to comply with his state’s Open Records Act.