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COVID-19 Exposed the Health Dangers of Air Pollution. Trump's EPA Still Refuses to Budge on Soot Regulation
Public health experts and environmental justice advocates have been calling for years for the Environmental Protection Agency to tighten its standards on soot, a deadly air pollutant that has been associated with higher COVID-19 death rates. But the Trump administration kept its brand strong on Monday, rejecting the tougher regulations, which will keep thresholds for…
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Team Trump Threatens to Yank Billions in Fed Cash From California for Not Cutting Air Pollution—but Won’t Let the State Cut Air Pollution
Does Donald Trump want California to battle air pollution, or not? That’s a question lawmakers there likely have on their minds with the Trump administration’s latest salvo against the politically liberal state. Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department revoked California’s right to set higher emissions standards in the state’s longstanding bid to…
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On Earth Day, Our Fight for Environmental Justice and Against the Trump EPA’s Toxic Agenda Continues
The Trump administration and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler have failed African-American communities. Earth Day is the ideal time to renew our commitment to ensure everyone has equal access to clean air and safe environments regardless of which zip code they live in. It is also a time to remember our history is rooted…
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EPA Chief Scott ‘2 Chainz’ Pruitt Spent Nearly $3,000 on ‘Tactical’ Pants and Polos: Report
While America’s focus has rightly been on the Trump administration’s draconian border policing, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is out here balling! According to The Intercept, Pruitt has now spent some $4.6 million on security, a $1.1 million increase since his last financial disclosure, and “according to three expense line items for April, spent…
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EPA Chief Scott ‘All Gold Everything’ Pruitt Is Living His Best Life With Taxpayers’ Money; Morocco Trip Under Scrutiny
Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt is becoming the Kanye West of Donald Trump’s Cabinet, and that’s because he can’t keep his name out of the press. Currently, Pruitt is facing at least 11 federal investigations into his lavish spending and possible kickbacks, including a sweetheart deal that allowed him the use of a Capitol…
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Scott Pruitt Is the Most Baller EPA Administrator the World Has Ever Known
If Scott Pruitt had an Instagram page, it would just be photos of him flossing in first class, lounging in his Capitol Hill condo, fake-talking on the phone in his $43,000 phone booth and balling out in his Chevy Suburban with the bulletproof seat covers. Seriously, who the fuck is Scott Pruitt, and what does…
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EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Is Doing His Best to Make Joanne the Scammer Proud
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is out here living his best life on the taxpayers’ dime. First there were charges that he and his wife were flying first class with a security detail and using military planes like his personal Uber. In one month, Pruitt charged some $90,000 in first-class flights. Since that scandal,…
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Watch: As Flint, Mich., Literacy Rates Plummet, Is Poisoned Water to Blame?
New data shows that less than 11 percent of Flint, Mich., children are proficient in reading. According to the Michigan Department of Education, reading rates have significantly dropped since the start of the Flint water crisis in 2014, from 41.6 percent to 10.7 percent. Could the lead-contaminated water be to blame? Watch above.
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Scott Pruitt: We Need More Proof Global Warming Exists; That Earth’s Basically Melting Is Not Enough
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, showed that he is everything we feared he would be Thursday when he got on television and basically denied that climate change exists. The Washington Post reports that Pruitt’s comments on the CNBC program Squawk Box “outraged scientists, environmentalists, and even his immediate predecessor” at…
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Scott Pruitt, Who Opposed the EPA Every Chance He Got, Has Been Confirmed as Its New Leader
Scott Pruitt used his position as Oklahoma’s attorney general to repeatedly sue the Environmental Protection Agency for its efforts to regulate mercury, smog and other forms of pollution, and on Friday he was sworn in as the agency’s new leader, bringing into question the future of the EPA under the Trump administration. The Washington Post…