Investigating Power
Democratic members of the Senate Environment Committee on Tuesday pushed to delay a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they need to review a pending open records lawsuit against the nominee, while other Senate Democrats demanded more information on Carl Icahn’s role in the Trump administration.
Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s pick for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is withholding thousands of emails related to his ties to major energy interests who may have donated to his political causes.
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.