Week 56: Pruitt’s Travel Is a First-Class Waste of Money
The Trump administration has the money to fly Scott Pruitt first class, but not enough for renewable energy or climate change research? Pruitt Doesn’t Travel C…
White House | |Week 55: EPA Climate Confusion―What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger
Pruitt speculates that climate change is healthy, Trump is looking for a few good scientists, and the dog ate the State Department’s carbon emissions report. &…
White House | |Week 54: Dear President Trump, Coal Is Neither Clean Nor Beautiful
Trump sees beauty in environmental destruction and lies about sea ice, while Scott Pruitt is outed for personally scrubbing climate change from the EPA website…
White House | |Week 52: Zinke Didn’t Do His Job
The Interior secretary’s negligence on offshore drilling, a mass resignation at the National Parks Service board, and the oil and gas industry’s hunger for eve…
White House | |Week 51: Back to the Drawing Board, Rick Perry
FERC smacks down Rick Perry on coal, Zinke plays favorites with Florida, and Pruitt is investigated (again). Rick Perry Gets Totally FERC’d The Federal Energy …
White House | |Week 50: When It Gets Cold, Trump’s Climate Change Denial Heats Up
Trump bloviates on climate, blows off the United Nations, and deregulates blowout preventers. Ice-Cold Nonsense Donald Trump ended a year of climate change fli…
White House | |Week 49: As We Approach the End of Trump’s First Year, the DOI and EPA Are in Tatters
Just how badly has Trump damaged the agencies that protect our environment in the short time he’s been in the White House? As a candidate for president,…
White House | |Week 48: The Planet Is Warming, but the EPA Can Still Chill Speech
EPA employees are silenced, Pruitt is paranoid, and now’s your chance to sound off. Big Pruitt Was Watching You already knew it was bad working at Scott Pruitt…
White House | |Week 47: The EPA Isn’t That Into Enforcing Environmental Laws
Plus, NASA is ordered off climate research while Trump (maybe) acknowledges climate change. The Failing EPA In its first nine months, the U.S. Environmental Pr…
White House | |Week 46: Trump Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—and Gains Lawsuits
Trump primes for drilling under a national treasure, Murkowski makes inroads in the Tongass, and there’s no stopping the oil trains. We Can’t Bear It President…
White House | |Week 45: A Mountain of Resistance
EPA gets an earful in West Virginia, a Trump appointee has a lying problem, and Trump undoes lots of rules. Can You Hear This, Scott Pruitt? The U.S. Environme…
White House | |Week 43: Hawking Coal at a Climate Change Summit. Awkward…
The Trump administration evades ethics rules, closes a science center, and seeks to end protests at the Washington Monument. Am I at the Wrong Meeting? The Uni…
White House | |Week 42: Our Air Is Too Clean?
The EPA hires off-the-wall scientists (again), plays hide-and-seek with Congress, and more. What a Load of Bull U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administra…
White House | |Week 41: Introducing . . . Pseudoscience Advisory Councils
The EPA chief asks corporations to run U.S. science policy, and a USDA nominee is caught up in the Russia scandal. Conflict of Information U.S. Environmental P…
White House | |Week 40: Ryan Zinke Calls for More Drilling (and Lying) in the Gulf
Plus, shadiness in Montana and an insult-slinging EPA. No Oil Left Behind The Interior Department announced this week that in March “all available un-leased ar…
White House | |Week 39: Did the EPA Chief’s Cattle Propaganda Video Break the Law?
Scott Pruitt falls out of love with suing the EPA and puts a chemical industry shill on the payroll. This week’s column is a trifecta of stories on EPA Adminis…
White House | |Week 38: According to Scott Pruitt, Your Children’s Health and Safety Aren’t Worth Much
The EPA administrator devalues our future, Congressman Bishop devalues our history, and industrialists devalue Rick Perry. Pruitt’s Price Tags U.S. Environment…
White House | |Week 37: Rick Perry Wants to Drag Dirty, Old Power Plants Out of Retirement
Reading Pruitt’s Outlook calendar; Trump’s unholy pick for the EPA’s toxics office. Rick’s Picks: Coal and Nuclear U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Per…
White House | |Week 36: Scott Pruitt Can’t Hear You Anymore (Not That He Was Listening)
The EPA chief’s new $25,000 soundproof booth, Ryan Zinke hates solar panels, and the Arctic refuge is in danger yet again. But Is It Leakproof? The U.S. Enviro…
White House | |Week 35: Trump Throws His Weight Behind the Valley Lateral Pipeline
FERC gets federalism wrong, Zinke gets monuments wrong, and Pruitt gets babysat. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Pipeline! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—und…
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