EPA’s Pruitt hammers Obama environmental record: ‘What did they achieve?…Flint and Gold King’
Interviewed by WDAY’s Rob Port, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt excoriates the Obama Administration’s environmental record. Pruitt: “What did they achieve? With respect to water you had Flint and Gold King. With respect to Superfund sites you have 1322, approximately, Superfund sites across the country which is more than when President Obama came in. Air […]
EPA chief sued for doubting global warming hysteria
EPA chief Scott Pruitt has been sued for his recent comments on CNBC’s Squawk Box. The lawsuit is here. The media release is below. ### For Immediate Release: Apr 13, 2017 Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337 EPA’S PRUITT SUED TO BACK UP CLIMATE CHANGE CLAIMS Pruitt Should Put Up Evidence Supporting Stance or Cease Climate […]
EPA chief Pruitt on rogue employees, the environment, and frivolous lawsuits
Paris accord a ‘bad deal’ Pruitt reiterated on Fox & Friends we need to leave the Paris climate accord, once again calling it a “bad deal” for Americans. China and India, he said, have no obligations to reduce CO2 emissions until 2030 even as the United States continues to lower its own emissions at the […]
Delingpole: EPA’s Scott Pruitt Gets Eaten Alive by Fox
by JAMES DELINGPOLE2 Apr 20171,711 I just watched Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, get eaten alive by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace. Not only was it an ugly and painful sight but it was also a very dispiriting one. VIDEO EPA chief unconvinced CO2 linked to global warming Here is the guy […]
Trump’s EPA Chief Calls Paris Agreement Raw Deal For US Citizens
BY CHRIS WHITE President Donald Trump should continue international discussions on environmental issues even if the Paris climate agreement is a “bad deal,” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt said Sunday. The Oklahoma Republican did not tip his hat as to the future of the much-talked about climate deal, which was signed by former […]
Chris Wallace goes full warmist: Touts UN ‘guesswork’ as hard science & ‘carbon pollution’ in interview with EPA chief
Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace uncritically cited “guesswork” by UN scientists as some sort of hard science during an interview with EPA chief Scott Pruitt on April 2. Wallace also hyped discredited “hottest year” claims and referred to carbon dioxide, a trace essential gas humans exhale as “carbon pollution.” Wallace also praised China’s emission efforts […]
How dare he!? EPA scientific integrity office reviewing Pruitt’s comments that CO2 is not climate control knob
By Emily Flitter | NEW YORK The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific integrity watchdog is reviewing whether EPA chief Scott Pruitt violated the agency’s policies when he said in a television interview he does not believe carbon dioxide is driving global climate change, according to an email seen by Reuters on Friday. Lawyers for environmental […]
It’s D-day for EPA climate regs. Bombs fall at 2 p.m.
Via: http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/03/28/stories/1060052175 (Subscription required – Excerpts below)By Evan Lehmann, E&E News reporterPublished: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt today is expected to unveil along with President Trump an executive order that will begin to eliminate former President Obama’s climate change legacy. Photo courtesy of Pruitt via Facebook. President Trump will try to land a knockout […]
Enviros Seek A Probe Against Scott Pruitt’s ‘Unprecedented’ Climate Comments
‘Unprecedented to have the head of the EPA contradicting basic scientific facts’ Source: Enviros Seek A Probe Against Scott Pruitt’s ‘Unprecedented’ Climate Comments
Reuters: U.S. group Sierra Club seeks IG probe of EPA’s Pruitt over skeptical CO2 comments
By Emily Flitter | NEW YORK U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general to investigate whether the agency’s head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter seen by Reuters on […]