‘Pruitt Fundraising PACs to Wind Down by EPA Confirmation Hearing, Attorney...
An attorney for Scott Pruitt two political action committees says the groups will be terminated by the time the Oklahoma attorney general’s Senate confirmation hearings for administrator of the U.S....
View ArticleRepublicans Outmaneuver Democratic Boycott to Allow Senate Vote on Oklahoma’s...
With no Democrats in the room, U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleAs Pruitt’s Confirmation Vote to Lead EPA Nears, Watchdog Group Sues to See...
The Center for Media and Democracy on Tuesday filed an open records lawsuit against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, accusing the Trump administration’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleOklahoma’s Utilities Moving Away From Coal Despite Trump’s New Climate Order
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to roll back many Obama-era rules meant to combat climate change.
View ArticleEPA Considers Shutting Down Oil Sites Months After Leak and Dead Wildlife...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may ask three oil and gas companies to shut down disposal wells as investigators look for the source of a saltwater leak that has plagued the area for nine...
View Article‘EPA Pledges Bird Creek Clean-Up’
EPA Administrator and former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was back in the Sooner State last week — to talk about what his agency plans to do about saltwater contamination in Bird Creek in...
View ArticleGuarded Hope At Oklahoma’s Abandoned Mine As EPA Promises Focus On...
Newly minted U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spent his first months on the job steering the agency away from climate change to focus, in part, on cleaning up...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups Fight State’s Effort To Regulate Coal Ash On Its Own
In testimony at meetings in recent years and documents filed in support of its application to the EPA, Oklahoma environmental officials and utility industry representatives argue strongly for more...
View ArticleConservation groups criticize joint Oklahoma-Arkansas plan for sensitive...
Environmental groups want Oklahoma to complete a pollution plan overseen by the EPA, which the backed away from in recent years.
View ArticleA Disastrous Disconnect
REGINA, Ky. — Todd Bentley stepped onto his porch and saw the storm swelling the creek near his home. If this kept up all night, he feared, the creek could overflow its banks and wash out his...
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