The day before Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned over his colossal overuse of private planes, Energy Secretary Rick Perry—who has never been the most graceful of public officials—reportedly took a chartered jet to visit a uranium facility in Ohio. This is just the latest in a cascade of stories…
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Parts of the Caribbean were almost entirely obliterated. Houston was submerged in raging floodwaters. And the entire U.S. was engrossed in cable news coverage as Hurricane Irma approached the Florida Keys as the biggest storm in recent memory.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said on late Thursday that it was “insensitive” to talk about climate change as Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida.
As pollutants and toxic waste flood the Houston area following a 1,000 year flooding event fueled by unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the Environmental Protection Agency under Scott Pruitt has merrily continued its transition into the Corporate-Profits-and-Also-Scott-Pruitt’s-Future-Political-Prospects…
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Scott Pruitt is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and he has a loving relationship with carbon dioxide and methane gas, though he gives the cold shoulder to believing in global warming. In mid-June, the EPA announced they would be staying regulatory actions on oil and gas regulations for two years.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is going to offer some staff members buyouts in a move to reduce their numbers, Reuters reports, in an attempt to fall in line with President Donald Trump’s promise to thoroughly fuck environmental regulations and protections for the sake of his 2018 budget.
Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed half of its 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors, which reviews and provides feedback on the EPA’s scientific research. “The administrator believes we should have people on this board who understand the impact of regulations on the regulated community,”…
Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxic pesticide most commonly used in California’s Central Valley for crops like almonds, walnuts, oranges, grapes, and broccoli. It was banned for residential use in 2000 and in 2015, under President Barack Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a ban for use of the pesticide in…
Ever since Inauguration Day, it feels like doomsday scenarios—nuclear war, rising sea levels that wipe out entire continents, the rise of a kleptocratic police state—that were once absurd have become increasingly likely. It’s as if Americans are living in a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, except every adventure ends…
EPA head Scott Pruitt’s ties to the industries he’s supposed to be regulating are well-documented. Many call him a climate-change denier. He has now confirmed that he’s at the very least a carbon dioxide denier.
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The new administration has not thus far been too shy about promoting a pro-pillage-the-earth-of-all-resources-until-everything-dies position. Today, the CDC, which (as of right now) considers climate change a public health issue, announced it would postpone a climate change summit scheduled for next month in Atlanta.
Choo-choo! It’s another day of living on the Snowpiercer, an inequitable dystopia in which the vindictive king eating steak at the front of the train waves his hand and knights his wealthy, corrupt minions to attempt to govern us while we eat roach cakes. No?... Okay, it’s just another full day of Senate confirmation…
Donald Trump, a stubbed, recently-severed zombie toe soon to be sworn in as President of the United States, remains steadfast in his interpretation of climate change as “hey, maybe not, I dunno.”
