Trump EPA hires adviser who says fossil fuels are good for the earth
The Trump administration is stacking the EPA’s Science Advisory Board with anti-science conspiracy theorists and industry insiders.
By Caroline Orr - February 05, 2019The Trump administration is stacking the EPA’s Science Advisory Board with anti-science conspiracy theorists and industry insiders.
By Caroline Orr - February 05, 2019The administration is refusing to protect Americans from cancer-causing chemicals in the nation’s water supply.
By Caroline Orr - January 30, 2019Looking back at the year in science denialism, pseudoscience, and evidence suppression.
By Caroline Orr - December 26, 2018Trump’s EPA chief, a former coal lobbyist, just wants a climate change report that makes coal look better. Is that too much to ask?
By Dan Desai Martin - November 28, 2018Team Trump doesn’t want you to hear about why children are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
By Eric Boehlert - October 04, 2018More than 1,500 EPA employees left the agency during the first 18 months of Trump’s presidency.
By Caroline Orr - September 11, 2018A survey of 63,000 federally employed scientists are warning about the dangers of the Trump administration’s shocking assault on science.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 14, 2018Trump’s EPA is gutting restrictions on asbestos — one of the most dangerous carcinogens ever used in construction.
By Oliver Willis - August 07, 2018Newly revealed documents show the EPA orchestrated a smear campaign to discredit the criticism of employees who left the agency as Trump-era policies took hold.
By Caroline Orr - July 31, 2018Trump’s first EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, was horrible for the environment. But experts say Pruitt’s current replacement, Andrew Wheeler, could be even worse.
By Oliver Willis - July 07, 2018Trump’s shamelessly corrupt EPA administrator Scott Pruitt finally resigns in disgrace — but Trump is still singing his praises anyway.
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 05, 2018House Speaker Paul Ryan actually expects us to believe he hasn’t heard about the scandals that are consuming the EPA.
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 14, 2018Scott Pruitt’s EPA is focused on protecting business instead of consumers.
By Eric Boehlert - June 11, 2018EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s parade of scandals has made his staff testy.
By Tommy Christopher - June 06, 2018Newly released emails show EPA officials working with a right-wing think tank in a coordinated effort to undermine climate science.
By Caroline Orr - June 01, 2018To justify his move to put more heavily polluting trucks on the roads, EPA Director Scott Pruitt cited a study that was disavowed by the university that produced it.
By Caroline Orr - May 29, 2018Scott Pruitt’s EPA apparently needs yet another scandal.
By Tommy Christopher - May 23, 2018The EPA tried to cover up a study about toxic chemicals in drinking water. At a summit on the crisis, security guards manhandled a journalist attempting to cover the story.
By Oliver Willis - May 22, 2018EPA chief Scott Pruitt says he has to travel first class to avoid security ‘threats’ — an excuse no one is buying.
By Tommy Christopher - May 16, 2018The White House and the EPA suppressed a report showing dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the U.S. water supply because they feared it would cause a ‘public relations nightmare,’ according to newly revealed emails.
By Caroline Orr - May 16, 2018Scott Pruitt said he needed a full-time security detail after he received a wave of threats as head of the EPA. Turns out he made the request before he was even in office.
By Eric Boehlert - May 15, 2018The EPA tried to cover up a meeting between agency head Scott Pruitt and a Vatican leader who is facing charges of sexual abuse. The cover-up is just the latest in a series of scandals in the department under Trump.
By Oliver Willis - May 12, 2018Former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman is a loyal Republican — and she still can’t believe Scott Pruitt has a job.
By Tommy Christopher - May 08, 2018EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s corruption is a ‘bottomless pit.’
By Eric Boehlert - May 08, 2018After Pruitt blamed staffers for his corruption, his EPA deputies headed for the exits.
By Eric Boehlert - May 04, 2018Longtime Pruitt supporter Sen. James Inhofe has joined calls to investigate the EPA chief’s scandals as Republican support for Pruitt evaporates.
By Eric Boehlert - April 25, 2018EPA chief Scott Pruitt finally has to answer to his critics in public this week, and reports suggest the White House won’t be there to back him up.
By Eric Boehlert - April 24, 2018The billionaire Koch Brothers are some of the worst polluters in U.S. history. Now they’re celebrating how they got the Trump administration to let them run wild.
By Oliver Willis - April 20, 2018The EPA administrator’s unprecedented corruption reaches new levels of shame.
By Eric Boehlert - April 16, 2018Pruitt insisted staff find ways for him to write off personal trips, among other transgressions.
By Eric Boehlert - April 12, 2018