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Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Watchdog: Scott Pruitt's 24/7, $3.5 Million Security Detail Was Unjustified

Is anyone surprised?

Joe Setyon | 9.4.2018 3:15 PM

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Scott Pruitt

After Months of Scandals, Scott Pruitt Resigns EPA Post

President Trump announced the EPA administrator's departure in a pair of tweets.

Joe Setyon | 7.5.2018 4:24 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

Scott Pruitt's Newest Scandal Involves a Salty Practice Called 'Ratfucking'

The EPA administrator's perks now include a $43,000 phone booth, a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife, and ratfucking.

Zuri Davis | 6.28.2018 11:10 AM

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Scott Pruitt

Will EPA Head Scott Pruitt Be Shown the Door?

A parade of nearly comical ethics scandals is overwhelming his record as a deregulator.

Scott Shackford | 6.15.2018 1:45 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt Kicks Himself in His Own Ass, Again

EPA head bars reporters from 'unfriendly' media from public meeting on pollution

Ronald Bailey | 5.22.2018 5:45 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

Activists Decry Effort to Bring Economic Rationality to Clean Air Regulation

"A standard demanding the return of the Stone Age would not prove 'requisite to protect the public health.'"

Ronald Bailey | 5.11.2018 2:30 PM

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CAFE Standards

California Sues EPA to Maintain Automobile CAFE Standards That Hurt the Poor

How cowardly politicians avoid telling voters that they should pay more for the privilege of driving

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2018 6:00 PM

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Scott Pruitt

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Taste for Swampdweller Perks Is Distracting from His Deregulatory Agenda

Hated by activists, he should have known that he needed to be squeaky clean in his personal and professional life.

Ronald Bailey | 4.26.2018 12:15 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Government Watchdog Says Pruitt's $43,000 Phone Booth Broke the Law

Pruitt's recurring waste of taxpayer money undermines his laudable regulatory reforms.

Eric Boehm | 4.16.2018 7:05 PM

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Scott Pruitt

D.C. Government Thinks It Found the Real Problem With EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's Sweetheart Condo Deal

The Scott Pruitt condo scandal is all about rent-seeking, but not in the way the D.C. city government seems to think.

Eric Boehm | 4.6.2018 10:40 AM

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Internet

Rage Over Social-Media 'Censorship' Spurred YouTube Shooting Spree, Trump Proposes 1,300 Chinese Tariffs, Burning Rubber Not Free Speech: Reason Roundup

Meanwhile, corruption scandals dog Scott Pruitt at EPA.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.4.2018 9:30 AM

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Environmental Protection Agency

If Industry-Funded Scientists Can Be Conflicted, Surely Government-Funded Scientists Can Be Too

Scott Pruitt blocks EPA-funded researchers from serving on the agency's advisory boards.

Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2017 4:20 PM

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Biofuels

Trump's EPA Feeds the Ethanol Swamp Dwellers, Just As He Promised

The biofuels mandate is crony capitalism as usual.

Ronald Bailey | 10.30.2017 4:15 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

CNN Smears Sensible EPA Decision

The agency's administrator, Scott Pruitt, simply followed the law and allowed a company to submit a proposal.

John Stossel | 10.18.2017 12:15 AM

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Scott Pruitt

"The War On Coal Is Over," Declares EPA Administrator Pruitt

But the war over coal regulation moves on to a new front

Ronald Bailey | 10.9.2017 5:15 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Will Reportedly Revoke Obama's Clean Power Plan

Is the plan actually necessary for bringing emissions down?

Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2017 9:50 AM

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Environmental Protection Agency

How Obama's EPA Nearly Bankrupted John Duarte's Farm

A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.

Alexis Garcia | 9.14.2017 1:05 PM

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Scott Pruitt

EPA Bureaucracy Strikes Back: The Case of the Board of Scientific Counselors

How will the struggle between the permanent bureaucracy and the EPA's new leadership play out?

Ronald Bailey | 5.9.2017 10:45 AM

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Donald Trump

Donald Trump's Climate Change Executive Order Will Make Energy Cheaper

But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.

Ronald Bailey | 3.28.2017 2:55 PM

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CAFE Standards

Trump Administration to Review Obama-Era CAFE Standards

'We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again'

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2017 4:15 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt Climate Change Freakout: Stay Calm and Carry On

At Senate: "I do not believe that climate change is a hoax."

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2017 6:30 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

Trump, Navigable Waters, and the EPA's WOTUS Regulations

Rolling back a "federal land grab" or instituting an "unmitigated disaster for fish and wildlife, hunting and fishing, and clean water"?

Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2017 3:30 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt Emails Reveal He Consulted with Industry About Regulations

Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.

Ronald Bailey | 2.22.2017 5:15 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Trump EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Grilled on Climate Change at Senate Hearing

'I do not believe that climate change is a hoax.'

Ronald Bailey | 1.18.2017 2:00 PM

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