Today, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces two House hearings -- without the White House’s assistance -- on his ethical and illegal actions. He can try his best to shift the blame, but these scandals all have one thing in common: Scott Pruitt. Below are just the highlights of the long list of Pruitt’s wrongdoings.
WASHINGTON, DC - Forty national civil rights, labor, conservation and environmental organizations representing millions of members and supporters across the United States have taken out a full page ads on Thursday, the day of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s House hearings, calling for Pruitt’s resignation or firing.
Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted a public hearing today on its drafted update to the water pollution permit for the Cheswick coal-fired power plant. The plant has been polluting Pittsburgh’s air and water since 1970 and discharging wastewater into the Allegheny River and Little Deer Creek.
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued an order approving a settlement agreement reached by the Sierra Club, AEP, Commission Staff and other stakeholders last fall.
Washington, DC -- President Trump recently announced the end of protections for Liberians seeking asylum in the United States and granted stay by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Today, in the White House Press Briefing, Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt still has a job and how his behavior is corresponds with Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” given his many ethical scandals
The House today is expected to take up the Salmon Extinction Act, HR 3144. The bill will roll back critical protections for endangered salmon, derail salmon recovery alternatives, and undermine bedrock environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act. Thirteen wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia and Snake River Basin are currently at risk of extinction, none of which have recovered under the inadequate plans the Salmon Extinction Act would continue.
A crowd of activists rallied today outside of a meeting of Bank of America’s shareholders and executives to call on the Charlotte-based bank to drop its financing of dirty and destructive fossil fuel projects.
Vectren Corp. of Evansville and CenterPoint Energy of Houston, Texas, announced a merger agreement.
73 scientists say #NoGrizHunt.