Scott Pruitt’s hell week - and weekend - of embarrassing round the clock headlines of his ethics violations looks to be continuing this week as news breaks that he personally approved massive raises for two of his employees after previously denying doing so. In order to get ahead of the Inspector General after Pruitt’s botched Fox News interview aired, top EPA aides began looking for files that contradicted Pruitt’s statement that he did not know about the raises.
Conservation groups appeal border waiver decision.
Yesterday, Kinder Morgan announced that it will suspend work on its Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. The controversial pipeline faces legal challenges as well as widespread public opposition across Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
“Governor Rauner should be demanding worker protections and making sure coal ash clean up isn’t left to taxpayers, rather than helping push backdoor bailouts for these corporations, like the proposed changes to Illinois’ air pollution rules and obstructing stronger coal ash protections. Out of state energy corporations who have no long term commitment to Illinois communities are no longer a good bet for our local economies and it’s time to stop picking up the tab for Rauner’s friends in big coal. Lets invest in Illinois communities, not Texan corporations. Illinois needs sustainable jobs for working families and bold economic development powered by 100% clean energy.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - GOP Senator Susan Collins made clear on CNN sunday that Scott Pruitt must go, saying "On policy grounds alone, I think Scott Pruitt is the wrong person to head the EPA.”
Tonight, Donald Trump made clear he doesn’t understand how bad Scott Pruitt is making him look, as he pedaled fantasies to minimize Pruitt’s humiliating scandals and appeared ignorant of Pruitt’s own efforts to defy Trump.
The scandals for “the Kato Kaelin of Capitol Hill” are going into extra innings this weekend, as Pruitt’s corrupt behavior is reaching new levels of absurdity and obscenity, earning even more embarrassing headlines for the Trump Administration, and drawing scrutiny and pressure from across the country and across the aisle.
Let’s put this in terms that Scott Pruitt would understand: If there were a World Series for worst weeks in Washington, Scott Pruitt would be the 1927 Yankees. The only difference is his support and actual talent is more akin to the Florida Marlins. With numerous headlines on Trump’s chief of staff and other administration officials advocating for his firing, his ineffectiveness being exposed, and the fact that he’s apparently the “Kato Kaelin of Capitol Hill,” Scott Pruitt is dangerously close to being fired.
This morning, Donald Trump rejected the idea that Scott Pruitt could be Attorney General and admitted that Scott Pruitt is “under siege.” Trump has now given Pruitt the same vote of confidence that he gave Rex Tillerson, David Shulkin, and
DENVER, CO -- After just 15 days, today marks the close of the public comment period on a proposal by the Department of the Interior to open public lands near Great Sand Dunes National Park and the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness to destructive drilling, mining and fracking. The proposal is part of a nationwide effort by Interior Secretary Zinke to sell out public lands to the oil and gas industry. All of the parcels set to be auctioned off by Sec.
