by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Author As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer rely on “secret” scientific data to justify regulations, Administrator Scott Pruitt announced last week. EPA regulators and agency-funded researchers have become accustomed to producing unaccountable, dodgy science to advance a [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon end his agency’s use of “secret science” to craft regulations. “We need to make sure their data and methodology are published as part of the record,” Pruitt said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Otherwise, it’s not [...]
Scott Waldman and Robin Bravender E&E News U.S. EPA chief Scott Pruitt is expected to roll out plans soon to restrict the agency's use of science in rulemakings, pitting him against critics who say it would threaten public health and environmental protections. In a closed-door meeting at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Pruitt told a [...]
by Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport New York Times The fall of Rex W. Tillerson from the Trump administration — on Tuesday, Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, was tapped to replace him as secretary of state — removes one the last remaining presidential advisers whose views on global warming are in line with the rest [...]
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of their Year in Review report for 2017-2018. As the news release notes, the agency led by Administrator Scott Pruitt has achieved a great deal in just one short-year: "EPA finalized 22 deregulatory actions, which could save Americans more than $1 billion in regulatory [...]
by Sean Moran Breitbart West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey slammed Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, arguing that “it’s clear Evan Jenkins has not abandoned his Democratic past.” Breitbart News revealed in an exclusive report last Wednesday that Congressman Jenkins originally denied and then admitted to sending a letter [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Asking the boss for a decision can sometimes be frustrating, especially if the answer is "Let me think about it." OK, you can come back tomorrow, but if you get the same answer day after day, you might eventually conclude that [...]
by Amy Cooke, Independence Institute EVP and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Hill Just because President Obama’s controversial and costly Clean Power Plan is dead at the federal level doesn’t mean Colorado ratepayers are out of financial danger. Nearly 1.4 million state electricity customers await a Colorado Public Utilities Commission (COPUC) [...]
by Sean Moran Breitbart A separate report suggests that the letter was allegedly written by a Volvo lobbyist, but Jenkins claims that the lobbyist-drafted letter is different than the one he admits to circulating. Steve Milloy, a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team member, details in a report on his blog that Congressman Jenkins circulated a [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel When you sit at a traffic light, frustrated that it takes so long to turn green, consider that in one sense it never will. Traffic lights are among mankind’s greatest inventions for safety, and among our worst for the environment. Numerous [...]
