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Citizens petitioning their government, a right protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution, are being called ‘terrorists’ by the Trump administration.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 16, 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 wants to distract you from the real problems he has done nothing about.
By Tommy Christopher - August 13, 2018California firefighters say they have plenty of water to fight fires. Trump still claims they don’t. Now Trump’s Cabinet agencies are propping up his conspiracy theory.
By Oliver Willis - August 10, 2018Trump’s interior secretary just doubled down on wildfire lies.
By Eric Boehlert - August 08, 2018Trump’s EPA is gutting restrictions on asbestos — one of the most dangerous carcinogens ever used in construction.
By Oliver Willis - August 07, 2018‘The ignorance displayed by the president is a serious national crisis,’ Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) told Shareblue.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 06, 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, 2018The Endangered Species Act helped to save the bald eagle, a national symbol of strength and power. Now the Trump administration is working with congressional Republicans to gut the law.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2018Top Trump officials accidentally revealed their plan to put the interests of corporations over the protection of national monuments.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 23, 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, 2018Texans are blasting Trump for lying and denigrating the heroes of Hurricane Harvey.
By Oliver Willis - June 07, 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, 2018Instead of addressing reports that nearly 5,000 people died on his watch in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, Trump was busy tweeting about TV, his campaign crowd size, and Hillary Clinton.
By Oliver Willis - May 30, 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, 2018Trump’s callous assessment that Hurricane Maria wasn’t ‘a real catastrophe like Katrina’ was wrong then, and has proven to be even more wrong now.
By Tommy Christopher - May 29, 2018Gov. Rick Scott installed his former “body man” — a 30-year-old with vanishingly little experience — to head Florida’s equivalent of FEMA.
By Tommy Christopher - May 27, 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, 2018Republicans are still fighting the facts.
By Tommy Christopher - May 17, 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, 2018