Investigating Power
Ahead of a Senate confirmation vote this week, environmental groups in Missouri want U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt to speak up about President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
The office of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has failed to respond to at least nine requests for e-mails between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies like Koch Industries.
Goings on at Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency concern those of us old enough to remember when unfettered industry used our air and water as an open sewer.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
As the Senate moves to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency this week, the ACLU, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and the Center for Media and Democracy filed a legal challenge yesterday to Pruitt’s failure to comply with his state’s Open Records Act.
The Center for Media and Democracy, after waiting up to two years for access to Pruitt’s communications as Oklahoma AG, sues as his confirmation as EPA chief looms.
Climate, Democracy, Environment
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, released a statement Feb. 7 in response to the Center for Media and Democracy’s lawsuit seeking expedited access to Scott Pruitt’s email communications with oil and gas industry officials during his time as attorney general of Oklahoma.
Climate, Democracy, Environment, Trump
The Center for Media and Democracy says Pruitt’s connections to coal and oil and gas interests should disqualify him from regulating them.
The Center for Media and Democracy has been waiting over two years for Pruitt’s office to respond to its request.
A media watchdog group filed suit on Tuesday to force U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency to release records detailing his communications with energy companies ahead of a Senate vote to confirm his nomination.
On Tuesday, the Center for Media and Democracy filed a lawsuit claiming that the President Donald Trump EPA nominee and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt violated the Oklahoma Open Records Act by failing to release more than 3,000 emails and other documents for more than two years.