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.
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.
The poster boy for Trump cabinet corruption, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, spend $3.5 of your money on personal security in a single year.
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.
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.
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.
It's Saturday. Donald Trump is off golfing again and climate change protesters are filling the streets of the nation's capital
Unsurprising coming from a man who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, his message is an endorsement of the rape of our Earth.
The vote comes a day after Trump signed an executive order dismantling environmental protections enacted under President Obama.
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
Sanders' outrage came after the new EPA leader questioned whether CO2 was a contributing to climate change.
The administration also plans to go after EPA climate programs put into place during Obama's time in the White House.
"My Republican colleague here is all about states' rights - except the right to clean air & save lives from pollution"
Not only will the swamp remain under a President Donald Trump – it may be deeper and murkier than ever.
"Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor."
"EPA’s report confirms what experts and the science show: that fracking operations put our drinking water at risk. "
Trump’s choices are unqualified, but they were chosen for their desire to eradicate federal agencies, not their level of competence or expertise.
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."
Trump advisor completely dismisses “the well-established existence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a myth conjured by anti-chemical activists."
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress' disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
