Category: Environment

Trump administration to freeze fuel standards and fight states that want better ones

Roll back the clock.  More pollution!

Republicans are big on states rights except when they don’t like the states’ policies.

update 8/1/18:

The Endangered Species Act helps the economy

from the article: “Tinkering with the Endangered Species Act isn’t a political winner with polls showing most Americans broadly supporting the law, along with other environmental protections. But Democrats argue that their Republican counterparts have bet that reforming the popular law are ok with that so long as they reward the interest groups that helped put the current Republicans in office in the first place.”

Inspector General finds that more EPA oversight is needed for drinking water after Flint

Pruitt’s legacy of damage to the environment

Pruitt is gone but he did a lot of harm to our country and people.

update:

EPA is blocking the release of a study on a cancer-causing chemical

Pruitt appointees did this.  Sad!

From the article “The EPA officials told Politico that Trump appointees have canceled key briefings that would have advanced the study and placed undue requirements on officials who would begin the required internal review of the formaldehyde study.
“They’re stonewalling every step of the way,” the current official said.”

 

 

Don’t forget Flint

update:

update 7/12

My 19th Pruitt roundup (new stuff since 6/25)

Unbelievable!  He’ll never get fired if he gets away with all this.  This is all new since the last update.

  • fundraising ally in charge of releasing documents
  • Pruitt and his aides kept secret calendars
  • Pruitt asked aides to pay his hotel bills and then did not pay them back
  • Pruitt asked an aide to get Pruitt’s wife a job
  • The EPA’s ethics officer pushed for investigations of Pruitt
  • Pruitt involved with “ratf***ing” aides he feels betrayed him
  • Pruitt emails reveal he exempted oil companies from smog rules
  • Pruitt sought EPA jobs for family and friends
  • Pruitt urged Trump to fire Sessions and replace him with Pruitt

Pruitt’s correspondence

Pruitt writes oil and gas executives

Lots of stuff from Eric Lipton of the New York Times