LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said he doesn’t understand why so many activists defend what the agency chief called the Obama administration’s dodgy environmental record on water issues. Pruitt, who sued the EPA more than a dozen times as Oklahoma’s attorney general, told reporters Wednesday that the Obama administration…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said he sued the agency he heads so many times while Oklahoma attorney general because “they exceeded their statutory authority.” “They deserved it and they deserved it because they exceeded their statutory authority, they exceeded their constitutional authority,” Pruitt told WDAY’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The company once hailed as Europe’s largest solar panel producer filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, blaming cheap Chinese panels for flooding the market. “The ongoing price erosion and the development of the business” has left the company “over-indebted and thus obliged to file for insolvency proceedings,” SolarWorld, which…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Comedian John Oliver’s campaign to discredit Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has unleashed a torrent of fake complaints, bot accounts, racist remarks and death threats against the agency head. The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” is a leading liberal voice against the Trump administration’s stance…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Former CIA deputy director David Cohen said it was not a good idea at all to let a Russian news agency and its equipment inside the Oval Office. In a tweet sent Wednesday morning, Cohen, who served as deputy director from February 2015 to January 2017 during…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times Two high-profile officials who served under the Obama administration told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on May 8 that they had reviewed classified information in which Donald Trump, his associates, or members of Congress had been unmasked. When an intelligence agency gives transcripts of intercepted communications,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett The Obama administration’s stimulus program spent more than twice as much money paying for energy efficiency audits for homeowners than the audits generated in savings, according to new research. Researchers found the Energy Department’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program paid experts to audit homes to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Wednesday that the United States won’t mandate that other countries adopt human rights values as a precondition for a relationship. During a speech at the Department of State, Tillerson noted that when it comes to issues like national security, relationships with other…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that, “unlike most politicians,” President Donald Trump’s lack of political ideology makes him open to changing his mind. “I’ve learned that he listens,” Trudeau told reporters about Trump’s managing style. “He is a little bit unlike many politicians,” he added,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Department of Homeland Security refuted on Tuesday a USA TODAY report that an illegal immigrant was deported to Mexico despite his temporary legal status under an Obama administration program. According to USA TODAY, Juan Manuel Montes was detained by federal immigration agents on Feb. 17 in…