3/29/2017

CABINET/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, moved late on Wednesday [3-29-17] to reject the scientific conclusion of the agency’s own chemical safety experts who under the Obama administration recommended that one of the nation’s most widely used insecticides be permanently banned at farms nationwide because of the […]

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3/19/2017

CABINET/DEFENSE/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JAMES MATTIS/SCOTT PRUITT: “The political appointee charged with keeping watch over Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides has offered unsolicited advice so often that after just four weeks on the job, Pruitt has shut him out of many staff meetings, according to two senior administration officials. At the Pentagon, they’re privately […]

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3/09/2017

CABINET/CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “President Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming. ‘I would not agree that [CO2] is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,’ Scott Pruitt said Thursday in an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen. […]

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3/08/2017

BUDGET/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “President Donald Trump pushed his White House team on Wednesday [3-8-17] to craft a plan for $1 trillion in infrastructure spending that would pressure states to streamline local permitting, favor renovation of existing roads and highways over new construction and prioritize projects that can quickly begin construction. Mr. Trump said he would […]

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3/4/2017

CABINET/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “What he said: In his written testimony to Congress, Pruitt said he never used a private email address for business while he was Oklahoma’s attorney general. What really happened: A spokesman for the Oklahoma attorney general’s office told Oklahoma City’s Fox 25 that Pruitt used his personal email during his tenure in […]

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2/22/2017

CABINET/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “During his tenure as attorney general of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt, now the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, closely coordinated with major oil and gas producers, electric utilities and political groups with ties to the libertarian billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch to roll back environmental regulations, according to over 6,000 pages […]

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2/17/2017

CABINET/EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “The Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency Republicans desperately want to rein in after what they charge was eight years of dangerous activism under the Obama administration that hurt businesses, jobs and the economy. Pruitt maybe just the person to do it. As Oklahoma attorney general […]

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