David Schweikert wants Arizona’s public lands in private hands
The Republican congressman has taken more than $107,000 from groups that want to turn national parks into oil fields and housing developments.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2026Environment
To 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, 2018
Trump’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, 2018
Gov. 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, 2018
Scott Pruitt’s EPA apparently needs yet another scandal.
By Tommy Christopher - May 23, 2018
The 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, 2018
Republicans are still fighting the facts.
By Tommy Christopher - May 17, 2018
EPA 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, 2018
The 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, 2018
Scott 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, 2018
The 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, 2018
Former 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, 2018
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s corruption is a ‘bottomless pit.’
By Eric Boehlert - May 08, 2018
After Pruitt blamed staffers for his corruption, his EPA deputies headed for the exits.
By Eric Boehlert - May 04, 2018
Longtime 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, 2018
EPA 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, 2018
The 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, 2018
Eight Florida students are demanding that Republican Gov. Rick Scott adhere to his ‘legal and moral obligation’ to protect the state and its people from the impact of climate change.
By Eric Boehlert - April 17, 2018
The EPA administrator’s unprecedented corruption reaches new levels of shame.
By Eric Boehlert - April 16, 2018
Pruitt insisted staff find ways for him to write off personal trips, among other transgressions.
By Eric Boehlert - April 12, 2018
The EPA chief’s corrupt, lavish spending isn’t going unnoticed.
By Eric Boehlert - April 09, 2018
Even 9/11-era EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman spent far less on security than Trump’s appointee, Scott Pruitt.
By Oliver Willis - April 07, 2018
With EPA administrator Scott Pruitt facing multiple new scandals on a daily basis, Trump still has his back.
By Matthew Chapman - April 05, 2018
The head of the EPA is at the center of half a dozen self-inflicted scandals, but Sen. Ted Cruz is desperately trying to find a way to blame President Obama for it.
By Oliver Willis - April 05, 2018
Scott Pruitt is drowning in scandals and even Republicans are calling for his firing — but he’s ‘dumbfounded’ by it all.
By Eric Boehlert - April 04, 2018
As a deluge of scandals about the Trump-era EPA is exposed, Fox News has taken the lead in playing down the corruption and whining about criticism.
By Oliver Willis - April 03, 2018
Unlike most environmental laws, Scott Pruitt is a big fan of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Because it lets him hand money to his friends.
By Matthew Chapman - April 03, 2018
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s scandals are exploding all around him.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 02, 2018
EPA Director Scott Pruitt just upped the ante of his war on science.
By Caroline Orr - March 28, 2018
Unlike climate change, this actually is a hoax.
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