Tag: EPA

During his tenure, Pruitt undertook a radical effort to reshape the EPA.

“Like Pruitt, this veteran coal lobby lobbyist has shown only disdain for the EPA’s vital mission to protect Americans’ health and our environment.”

"Evidence shows that current levels are still not sufficiently safe and need to be tightened.”

Among other scandals, Scott Pruitt tasked a taxpayer-funded agency staffer with securing a "business opportunity" for his wife with an executive of the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A.

"Scott Pruitt is more worried about journalists than poisoning millions of Americans."

Despite such fence-sitting over the science, the company knows action is necessary, which makes Shell's continued huge investments in fossil fuels for the next two decades all the more intriguing.

But the real corruption– a corruption that is literally killing us – will be around for a long time to come, unless the American people demand that it stop.

Cleanup is still ongoing. So far, more than 50 large dump trucks full of soil have been removed with more to come.

"Congress must hold hearings and investigate how it is possible that the EPA, the White House, and HHS have, for months, possessed research that could have helped families understand the health impacts of their exposure to toxic chemicals."

Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich – already richer than ever – whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.