by Robin Bravender E&E News reporter Scott Pruitt is expected today to unveil his plans to restrict science used by EPA, multiple sources told E&E News. The EPA administrator is slated to release an order requiring that all underlying data used in scientific studies affecting regulations be made public. The move fulfills a long-standing wish [...]
by Sean Moran Breitbart Four GOP establishment senators and ten House Republicans signed a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, asking him to save an Obama-era trucking rule. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Sens. Todd Young (R-IN), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Richard Burr (R-NC) all [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel A federal judge has ruled that the government must consider reducing mining in America's top coal-producing region, to fight climate change. Moreover, he ordered the Bureau of Land Management to work with the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and four [...]
by Zack Colman, E&E News reporter As Appearing in Climate Wire Climate skeptics are gaining ground. There's always been a vocal subset of conservatives who cast doubt on climate science, but what were once fringe views among broader Republicans — like warming's a hoax — are enjoying a growing acceptance in the GOP, worrying academics, [...]
On March 27, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent out a press release with the first paragraph and a link to E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and JunkScience.com author Steve Milloy's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. In the piece, Milloy, an expert on 'junk' and 'political' science, applauds EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decision to end [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart President Trump is winning at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There can be no better proof of this than the latest anguished editorial in the New York Times, lamenting the changes made by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The EPA, it claims, is the “epicenter of denial.” Its new regime is “terrified” [...]
by Todd Shepard Washington Free Beacon Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania summed up his climate plan as "the quieter the better" in a face-to-face meeting with billionaire activist Tom Steyer in 2017, according to emails from a source with knowledge of the meeting. The emails also show Wolf worried that jumping into a state-based [...]
by Steve Milloy Junkscience.com Author and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The New York Times editorialized against EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s move to end secret science at the EPA. Here’s the line-by-line takedown of the Times‘ lies. This morning’s editorial is below. My comments are in [bolded brackets]. Keep in mind, the full story of [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to bring more transparency to the science his agency relies on to issue new regulations has met intense opposition from the left. The New York Times launched a two-pronged offensive against Pruitt’s transparency policy that included an op-ed by the Obama administration’s top [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Author Steve Milloy As appearing in the Daily Signal EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt may be just a lawyer, but so far he has done more to bring sound science to EPA than any scientist ever affiliated with the agency. And, apparently, he’s just getting started. Since taking [...]
