Trump NASA Nominee Bridenstine Confirmed by Senate on Party-Line Vote
"Seven and a half months after being nominated to lead NASA, Jim Bridenstine finally gets to start his new job."
Source: NY Times, 04/20/2018
"Seven and a half months after being nominated to lead NASA, Jim Bridenstine finally gets to start his new job."
"Interior Department officials today mapped out their first steps toward allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
"Some of the most reliable conservatives in Congress are starting to speak out against Scott Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency who is now facing a barrage of ethics and spending questions."
"U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled."
"A new report underscores that even as Republican leaders remain resistant or even hostile to action on climate change, their states and districts are adopting renewable energy at some of the fastest rates in the country."
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday that it would conduct a 'full review' of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding Administrator Scott Pruitt's multiple email accounts, after concerns from a Republican senator that some requested information was not being made available to the public. "
"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) political staffers have been working to internally replicate through agency action a bill that would restrict the kind of science that the EPA can use when writing regulations, internal emails show."
"There are many ways to show appreciation and conservation of planet Earth, and a variety of “preserve the planet” experiences are planned at venues within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. There are opportunities to participate all across the state, from Friday-Sunday, April 20-22."
"Over the past 125,000 years, the average size of mammals on the Earth has shrunk. And humans are to blame."
"The EPA is considering a controversial process to deal with sewage overflows. Again."
"The House Agriculture Committee has long prided itself on bipartisanship, but partisan lines were sharply drawn as the panel approved a Republican-drawn farm bill Wednesday on a 26-20, party line vote."
"After seven months and close to $2.5 billion, almost everybody in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico had their lights back on — until a freak accident on Wednesday plunged the entire island once again into darkness."
"The White House budget office said on Wednesday it was probing whether a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed for Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt violated the law, while dozens of Democratic senators called for him to resign over allegations of ethics lapses."
"Until recently, communities suing fossil fuel companies over the costs of climate change have been located on the coasts: cities and counties in California, and New York City. But now, the litigation has jumped inland."
"A second person has died as the result of the wildfires that scorched across western Oklahoma, with the threat of more blazes Tuesday."