EPA under Biden recommits to protecting Black and Brown communities from pollution
The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.
By Oliver Willis - January 26, 2022The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.
By Oliver Willis - January 26, 2022Multiple Trump administration officials have resigned in disgrace for abusing taxpayer dollars.
By Emily Singer - May 20, 2020The Government Accountability Office ruled that Carson’s pricey dining room set violated the law.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2019Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department continued to lobby for the very industry he will be regulating — after he signed paperwork saying he was no longer lobbying.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2019A list of gifts received by disgraced former EPA chief Scott Pruitt while in office includes six copies of ‘The Lorax’ and three copies of ‘Global Warming for Dummies.’
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2019A new report shows Fox News has been all too happy to do and say exactly what the Trump administration wants.
By Oliver Willis - November 27, 2018We don’t know exactly how much Trump will benefit, because he still refuses to release his tax returns.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 09, 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, 2018A new report shows corruption is flourishing under Trump, as agencies have drastically reduced fines levied on corporate violators.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 25, 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 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, 2018Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey tried to get a straight answer from Sarah Huckabee Sanders about EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s security expenses. But she had nothing coherent to offer.
By Alison R. Parker - April 09, 2018The EPA chief’s corrupt, lavish spending isn’t going unnoticed.
By Eric Boehlert - April 09, 2018