Tag: EPA

“People from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by [Trump’s] efforts to deny scientific progress.”

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.

The agency Trump plans to eviscerate does much more than fight climate change.

“Pruitt is wholly unfit and unqualified to lead the EPA.”

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A 2015 Center investigation found that the office had never made a formal finding of discrimination in 22 years.

It remains to be seen whether Sessions will face questions about his support for the S.724 (“the Halliburton Loophole”) or his Energen stock sell-off.

Pruitt is a climate science denier.

Trump's appointment of Pruitt was met with unprecedented criticism by environmental and health organizations nationwide, being described as a "puppet" of the fossil fuel industry.

An EPA assessment in 2013 estimated that infrastructure needs for small water systems would total 64.5 billion dollars over 20 years.