Tag: EPA

Pruitt has a history of suing the EPA, is a strong supporter of federalism and has made no move to address pollution or environmental justice for his home state.

Trump notoriously campaigned on slashing Obama-era environmental regulations and rolling back the EPA. It seems he is following through.

“People from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by [Trump’s] efforts to deny scientific progress.”

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.

The agency Trump plans to eviscerate does much more than fight climate change.

“Pruitt is wholly unfit and unqualified to lead the EPA.”

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A 2015 Center investigation found that the office had never made a formal finding of discrimination in 22 years.

It remains to be seen whether Sessions will face questions about his support for the S.724 (“the Halliburton Loophole”) or his Energen stock sell-off.

Pruitt is a climate science denier.