Saturday, August 15, 2026

Tag: EPA

Pruitt’s attack on science continues to undermine integrity at EPA

Pruitt’s behavior is just the type of behavior the Scientific Integrity Policy should be protecting against.

EPA reverses decision to delay Obama-era pollution regulation after 15 states...

The rule will go into effect as planned on October 1, rather than being delayed by a year.

Departing EPA official warns of more crises like Flint under current...

"Only a few months on the job, Scott Pruitt has become the leading candidate for worst boss in the world.”

History shows that stacking federal science advisory committees doesn’t work

Facing these threats, scientists should not disengage from providing the nation with objective analysis and recommendations.

Exxon fined $2M for ‘reckless disregard’ of sanctions during Tillerson era

When secretary of state was CEO of ExxonMobil, says Treasury, the oil giant showed a "reckless disregard" for sanctions

EPA’s Scott Pruitt wants to televise a debate on climate change

Pruitt says there are many unanswered questions about climate change.

Stop dumping offshore fracking waste into Gulf of Mexico

"The agency has no business rubber-stamping the dumping of dangerous, disgusting chemicals without even trying to understand the risks."

VICTORY! Appeals court rule EPA cannot delay Obama-era emissions rule

This is a huge victory for environmentalists, who have been working tirelessly against Scott Pruitt and the EPA to ensure Obama-era environmental regulations aren’t undone.

EPA boss launches program to ‘critique’ scientific consensus on climate change

Since taking the EPA’s helm, Pruitt has assisted with President Trump’s systematic dismantling of critical rules that protect the environment in favor of energy development.

EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to...

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

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The mouth of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. Photo: Ralf Kiepert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park

Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
The United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, where the case against 15 protest defendants is pending. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches

Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson at the White House. Photo: The White House, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House...

Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.