Items Tagged with "Scott Pruitt"

Autos ask EPA head to ease fuel economy targets

Two lobbying groups representing the country's largest automakers have sent letters to Scott Pruitt, the newly appointed head of the U.S. EPA, urging the agency to reverse Obama-era fuel ecnomy standards, The New York Times reported Feb. 22. The groups, The  Alliance of Automobile Manufact Read More...

Climate science site removed from EPA website

The U.S. EPA has begun making changes to the agency's website, which include the apparent removal of several pages of information related to climate change data.The changes are intended to reflect the agency's new direction under President Donald Trump and Administrator Scott Pruitt, accor Read More...

'The war on coal is over,' Pruitt says in beginning repeal of EPA's Clean Power Plan

At a speaking event in Kentucky, U.S. EPA director Scott Pruitt on Oct. 9 announced the Trump administration would begin formal proceedings to repeal the Clean Power Plan on Oct. 10. "The war on coal is over," Pruitt said, according to a report from The New York Times. "Tomorrow in Wa Read More...