The drumbeat of scandals and embarrassing headlines created by Scott Pruitt for the Trump Administration has become relentless. Here’s just the latest round-up and some questions that Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to be asked. Today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders should clarify whether Donald Trump will hold Pruitt accountable -- like he did with former HHS Secretary Tom Price and former VA Secretary David Shulkin -- for his blatantly unethical behavior and call on Pruitt to resign.
Washington, DC-- Moments ago, the Trump administration reportedly announced it will force quotas on immigration judges to speed up and order more deportations. The order comes just after the president tweeted yesterday that he intends to take protections or a deal for Dreamers off-the-table - and use any means to push his xenophobic campaign-oriented anti-immigration agenda and a multi-billion dollar border wall.
Washington, DC -- News reports indicate that the Department of the Interior will withdraw plans to increase fees for visitors to U.S. national parks. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke had previously proposed to increase fees to as much as $70 at many popular national parks. Thanks to overwhelming resistance from hundreds of thousands of people who wrote in opposition to the plan to increase fees, Zinke has seemingly been forced to drop the proposal and announce that the Department of the Interior will pursue other options to raise revenue for national parks.
Earlier this month, Siwatu-Salama Ra, Co-Director of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC), was sentenced to two years in prison for defending herself and her young child from an attacker.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly taken unprecedented action on behalf of an oil company by blocking a shareholder resolution on climate change.
FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) -- together with its subsidiaries FirstEnergy Generation and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company -- announced its bankruptcy today after years of short-sighted business decisions and executive mismanagement that resisted investing in clean, renewable energy or its workers.
FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) -- together with its subsidiaries FirstEnergy Generation and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company -- announced its bankruptcy last night after years of short-sighted business decisions and executive mismanagement that resisted investing in clean, renewable energy, and its workers. The company now has a serious obligation to protect its workers and their benefits from the bankruptcy process, as well as meet its environmental responsibilities -- particularly if its coal and nuclear power plants are retired or sold.
It may be spring, but Scott Pruitt’s scandals have snowballed into a full blown avalanche. Here’s what we know after this week’s blizzard of bad headlines for the Trump Administration courtesy of Scott Pruitt.
Washington, DC -- Today, Scott Pruitt reportedly formally began the process of rolling back the clean car standards. The clean car standards will limit carbon pollution by 6 billion tons, save consumers $1.7 trillion dollars in fuel costs, and reduce oil consumption by up to 4 million barrels every day.
The Sierra Club sent a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry today urging him to reject FirstEnergy Solutions’ request for him to illegally use emergency powers to force electricity customers to bail out uneconomic coal and nuclear plants in the PJM electricity market.