Embattled EPA Chief Pruitt, Involved In Shady 2011 Real Estate Deal
"As Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt made $70,000 flipping a Tulsa property under questionable circumstances".
Source: Salon, 04/06/2018
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"Scott Pruitt’s Job In Jeopardy Amid Expanding Ethics Issues"
"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt fought for his job Thursday, facing a new barrage of allegations about issues ranging from his past housing arrangement and first-class travel to the reassignment of senior staff who criticized how he was spending taxpayer funds."
Source: Washington Post, 04/06/2018
"Trump Praises Pruitt For 'Fantastic Job' Amid Ethics Scandals"
"President Donald Trump on Thursday praised the “fantastic job” done by Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, expressing support for Cabinet secretary mired in deepening ethics scandals."
Source: Politico, 04/06/2018
"Dem Scrutinizes Pruitt’s Morocco Trip, Gas Industry Ties"
"A Senate Democrat is probing a December trip that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt took to Morocco and the degree to which it was meant to benefit the natural gas industry."
Source: The Hill, 04/06/2018
Pruitt Denies His Landlord’s Clients Had Business Before EPA. They Did.
"The EPA chief’s defense of his sweetheart rental is lacking some basic facts."
Source: Daily Beast, 04/06/2018
Growing Crisis Threatens EPA Chief Pruitt as Top Aides Eye the Exits
"A spreading crisis has threatened to engulf Scott Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, who until recently ranked among the stars of the Trump administration."
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2018
"E.P.A. Officials Sidelined After Questioning Scott Pruitt"
"At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management of the agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt."
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2018
"America’s Freshwater Mussels Are Going Extinct — Here’s Why That Sucks"
"Dozens of these water-filtering species are at risk of vanishing, and that’s bad news for every living creature that relies on them."
Source: Revelator, 04/05/2018
Pennsylvania Judge: Fracking Gas From Neighbor's Property Is Trespassing
"On Monday the Pennsylvania Superior Court issued an opinion that could have major ramifications for the hydraulic fracturing industry in the state: It states a company trespassed on a family's land by extracting natural gas from beneath their property while operating a fracking well next door."
Source: EHN, 04/05/2018
"U.S. Ethanol Groups Bristle As EPA Frees Refiners From Biofuels Law"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the request of 25 small refineries to be exempted from the nation’s biofuels laws, an agency source said on Wednesday, marking a big increase from previous years and triggering an outcry from farm groups worried the move will hurt ethanol demand."
Source: Reuters, 04/05/2018
