It’s no secret that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt disagrees with the overwhelming evidence tying human emissions of greenhouse gases to increasing global average temperatures, sea level rise, and a host of other pro…
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EPA chief Scott Pruitt says his next flight will be in coach, not first class
After being criticized for taking expensive, taxpayer-funded first class flights around the country and internationally, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt said Wednesday that on his very next flight, he will be seated a…
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Esteemed noble and EPA Head Scott Pruitt is not one to mix with the hoipolloi.
On Sunday, The Washington Post reported hat Pruitt had been flying first class throughout his time at the EPA and leaving the government with the bill. Pruitt defended his decision on security grounds, before pouring his heart out to New Hampshire’s WMUR On Tuesday.
The EPA administrator was at extreme risk of unpleasant “interactions” with people who take coach, Pruitt explained.
““There have been instances, unfortunately, as I’ve flown and have spent time, of interaction that’s not been the best,” Pruitt told WMUR. “So ingress and egress off the plane those are decisions all made by our detail team, by the chief of staff, by the administration… They place me on the plane where they think is best from a safety perspective.” Read more…
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The most commonly asked questions about climate change, particularly from those who doubt the mainstream findings showing that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, tend to be zombies. They rear their heads again and again, only to seemingly die a…
View More It’s misleading to ask what Earth’s ‘ideal temperature’ is. Here’s what’s really importantFountain at EPA office reportedly spews sewage in the best metaphor of 2017
2017 is the year irony didn’t just die, it went to hell.
On Wednesday, the Safe Climate Campaign reported that a water fountain in the EPA headquarters had begun to leak black sewage. Photos of the all-too-metaphorical spill immediately went viral.&#…
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No organization has embraced Donald Trump’s war on the press like the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, the EPA has gone beyond even the president’s tough talk and into the dark world of political opposition research.
The Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly been using taxpayer money to pay a well-known research firm popular with Republicans in order to monitor — and possibly manipulate — press coverage, according to a report from Mother Jones.
The revelation adds to growing concern that the EPA, tasked with protecting public health and the environment, is now primarily operating primarily as an anti-regulation, climate change-denying campaign. Read more…
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Armed mosquitoes to battle invasive, disease-carrying mosquitoes in the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleared the mosquito control startup MosquitoMate this week to unleash its lab-bred insects upon an aggressively biting mosquito species in the U.S.
MosquitoMate can now deploy its genetically modified male A…