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Wed, Jun 13th, 2018

Pruitt Used EPA Staff to Contact GOP Donors to Find His Wife A Job

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt had one of his top aides contact several Republican donors from EPA offices last year. The purpose of the contacts was to solicit the donors to find his wife Marlyn a job in Washington, DC. Eventually he was successful in getting her a position at a conservative political group, according to the Washington Post. read more

Leo Vidal

I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.

Sun, Jun 3rd, 2018

EPA Superfund Task Force Led By Lawyer With Toxic Past

The new Superfund Task Force at at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will now be led by a lawyer who until recently represented a major chemical and plastics company. The company he worked for is known for its long history of creating toxic chemical sites. read more

Leo Vidal

I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.

Fri, May 25th, 2018

Scott Pruitt Spent $3.5 Million Of Your Money On Personal Security In A Year

The poster boy for Trump cabinet corruption, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, spend $3.5 of your money on personal security in a single year.

Jason Easley

Mr. Easley is the founder/managing editor and Senior White House and Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason spent four years as a political columnist and the politics editor at 411mania.com, where he covered such issues as the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, and the daily workings of the American legislative process. Jason has also written for the Blogger News Network and saw his 2008 presidential election coverage quoted in over 300 newspapers worldwide. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

Awards and Professional Memberships

Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association

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Wed, May 2nd, 2018Wed, May 2nd, 2018

New Reports Surface That Lobbyist Arranged Pruitt’s Trip To Morocco

The Scott Pruitt corruption saga continues in Washington. After coming under fire in the press and in Congress, the last thing the EPA chief needed was a new scandal. But in today’s Washington Post there is a front page story that will make both Pruitt and his boss Donald Trump very unhappy. read more

Leo Vidal

I am a lifelong Democrat with a passion for social justice and progressive issues. I have degrees in writing, economics and law from the University of Iowa.

Tue, Oct 17th, 2017

Democrats Investigate Trump EPA Head For Illegal Use Of Taxpayer Money On Propaganda Video

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt made a propaganda video for a private group opposing regulations he is supposed to be enforcing and he did it on the taxpayer's dime. Now Democrats want him investigated, as he may have broken the law.

Sarah Jones

Ms. Jones is the Editor-in-Chief of PoliticusUSA and a Huffington Post contributor. She has covered President Barack Obama, 2016 Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton, VP Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Sarah hosts Politicus News and co-hosts Politicus Radio. Her analysis has been featured on several national radio, television news programs and talk shows, and print outlets including regular appearances on The Ann Walker Show With Scott Nevins for UBN Radio and KPTR 1450’s California Woman 411, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Wire, CNN, MSNBC, The Week, The Hollywood Reporter, The Richard Dawkins Foundation and more.

Sarah has won two Telly Awards and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Latin and Psychology, including studying the psychology of organized crime, with graduate studies in the psychology of linguistics and Latin poetry.

Mon, May 22nd, 2017

Key Senate Republican Obliterates Trump’s Disastrous Budget Proposal As ‘Dead On Arrival’

Republicans in Congress won't touch Trump's agenda with a 20-foot pole – and it's only been four months since he took office.

Sean Colarossi

Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.

Sat, Apr 29th, 2017

People’s Climate March Sends Thousands Marching in the Nation’s Capital

It's Saturday. Donald Trump is off golfing again and climate change protesters are filling the streets of the nation's capital

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

Sat, Apr 22nd, 2017

Trump’s Earth Day Message Claims a Gutted EPA ‘Enhances Environmental Protection’

Unsurprising coming from a man who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, his message is an endorsement of the rape of our Earth.

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Wed, Mar 29th, 2017

House Republicans Just Voted To Bar The EPA From Using Scientific Data

The vote comes a day after Trump signed an executive order dismantling environmental protections enacted under President Obama.

Sean Colarossi

Fri, Mar 17th, 2017

Trump Says His Budget Makes Safety ‘No. 1 Priority’ But it Will Kill Americans

Trump's budget directs dollars away from the people who need it most, vulnerable children and the elderly, to fill the swamp he promised to drain

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Thu, Mar 9th, 2017

Bernie Sanders Storms CNN To Blast Trump’s ‘Pathetic’ EPA Leader For Denying Climate Change

Sanders' outrage came after the new EPA leader questioned whether CO2 was a contributing to climate change.

Sean Colarossi

Mon, Feb 27th, 2017

Trump Will Gut Environmental Protections To Fund Unnecessary Military Spending

The administration also plans to go after EPA climate programs put into place during Obama's time in the White House.

Sean Colarossi

Tue, Jan 24th, 2017

Arnold Schwarzenegger Says States Rights Logic Applies to Pro-Environment States Too

"My Republican colleague here is all about states' rights - except the right to clean air & save lives from pollution"

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Mon, Jan 16th, 2017

Trump’s Swamp Gets Deeper As His EPA Pick Faces Potential Super PAC Scandal

Not only will the swamp remain under a President Donald Trump – it may be deeper and murkier than ever.

Sean Colarossi

Wed, Dec 21st, 2016

President Obama Erects a Firewall Against Trump’s Plan To Wipe Out Environmental Protections

"Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor."

Rmuse

Audio engineer and instructor for SAE. Writes op/ed commentary supporting Secular Humanist causes, and exposing suppression of women, the poor, and minorities. An advocate for freedom of religion and particularly, freedom of NO religion.

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

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Fri, Dec 16th, 2016

EPA Report That Fracking Poisons Water Seals Its Fate

"EPA’s report confirms what experts and the science show: that fracking operations put our drinking water at risk. "

Rmuse

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

http://rmuse.p2blogs.com/

Fri, Dec 9th, 2016

No American Is Safe from Trump’s Wrecking Crew Cabinet

Trump’s choices are unqualified, but they were chosen for their desire to eradicate federal agencies, not their level of competence or expertise.

Rmuse

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

http://rmuse.p2blogs.com/

Tue, Dec 6th, 2016

Don’t Buy Ivanka’s Climate Change Hype – Daddy Donald Says It’s Fake

No matter what Ivanka says, daddy Don's W.H. "is shaping up to be a bleak wasteland of climate denial and Koch-funded fossil fuel cronyism."

Rmuse

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

http://rmuse.p2blogs.com/

Sat, Nov 19th, 2016Sat, Nov 19th, 2016

Trump Environmental Guru Says Pesticides Are Safe and Denies Climate Change

Trump advisor completely dismisses “the well-established existence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a myth conjured by anti-chemical activists."

Rmuse

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

http://rmuse.p2blogs.com/

Fri, Nov 11th, 2016

56-Million Voters Handed the Kochs and Religious Right Control Over America

Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress' disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.

Rmuse

Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.

Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.

http://rmuse.p2blogs.com/