LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt might ask a former Obama-era official to head the agency’s climate debate team, according to a report published Monday. Steve Koonin, a physicist and former Department of Energy head during the Obama administration, is being considered to lead a “red team, blue…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Utah Republican Rep. Chris Stewart said that Obama-era smog regulations had “hosed” western U.S. states that struggle with high levels of naturally-occurring pollutants. “Those of us in the west are kind of hosed by this whole thing,” Stewart told Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt during…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch President Donald Trump will fulfill his campaign pledge to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, two sources with direct knowledge of the decision say. Trump is working with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and a small group of administration officials to work out how withdrawal…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A study meant to debunk a claim made by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt in his confirmation hearing ended up doing the opposite — it proved him right. The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, found that Pruitt’s claim of a “leveling off of warming” over…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A United Nations report published Wednesday highlights the legal risks that opponents say President Donald Trump faces if he does not withdraw from Paris climate agreement. The Paris Agreement could be used to force governments, including the Trump administration, “that have adopted climate-oriented laws to implement them,” reads the UN Environmental…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett GOP California Rep. Duncan Hunter wrote a letter in May to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and head of the EPA Scott Pruitt, urging the two to take action on the sewage spill in Tijuana that is pouring into the U.S. and apparently making Border Patrol agents ill. Hunter drew…
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 Chris White The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Saturday that people are absolutely justified in wanting President Donald Trump to abolish the agency. Scott Pruitt, who was narrowly confirmed as Trump’s EPA chief last week, told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference that people…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told agency employees Tuesday he would lead the agency based on three broad principles: process, the rule of law and federalism. Pruitt’s first speech to agency employees provided subtle hints of the direction he plans on taking EPA — complete with subtle criticisms…