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Scott Pruitt

David Bernhardt
Environment
Newly confirmed interior secretary suppressed information on pesticide risks, documents show
Coal plant emission
Health
Two recent EPA decisions threaten children’s health, experts say
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Politics
What would a Justice Kavanaugh mean for the environment?
Westlake Chemical
Health
EPA weakens oversight of toxic chemicals
Wood scraps
Environment
The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US
Whitehouse Koch bros
Environment
Democratic senators probe the extent of Koch brothers’ influence on Trump administration policy
Scott Pruitt at Congress
Environment
Ethical and legal questions surround Scott Pruitt’s time at the EPA
Polluting plant
Environment
Groups sue EPA over regulatory rollback, saying clean air is ‘at risk’
City streets and highway overpasses are shown in San Diego, California.
Economics
Scott Pruitt’s plan would double allowable auto emissions by 2025
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An EPA penalty of $15 million for selling emissions defeat devices was decreased by $3 million under the Trump administration in December 2017.
Global Politics
Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks during an interview with Reuters journalists in Washington, Jan. 9, 2018.
Food
Trump’s EPA chief pushes ‘cooperative federalism’ for food and farming
Bomb cyclone
Environment
Climate change will accelerate extreme weather events in the coming years
hurricane irma
Environment
White House-approved report says climate change is ‘extremely likely’ to be caused by human activity
A firefighter works to put out a forest fire during a June heatwave in Southern Spain. Fires have plagued much of southern Europe this summer as the region has been hit by intense heat and drought.
Environment
Federal scientists’ report says climate change is dangerously real
An oil well pictured, back lit by a sunset near Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Environment
Appeals court blocks Trump’s attempt to roll back methane rules
Pruitt
Environment
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is not making anyone happy right now
Car and gas station
Environment
Automakers are pushing to reverse fuel efficiency gains
Scott Pruitt
Environment
Here’s why new EPA chief Pruitt is ‘absolutely wrong’ about CO2 and climate change
Scott Pruitt
Environment
How do you run a government agency you have spent so much time suing?
Scott Pruitt
Environment
EPA chief promised to make life easier for the companies he regulates
Former U.S. Representative Bob Inglis was awarded the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for changing his position on climate change at big political cost.
Environment
This Republican holds out hope for a Trump conversion on climate change
Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma (c) at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pruitt, who Donald Trump has nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, is a fierce critic of the EPA in general and its efforts to cut c
Environment
With Trump’s EPA pick, the prospects for stopping dangerous global warming just got a lot cooler