The number of Freedom of Information Act requests the Environmental Protection Agency received from mainstream outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post spiked immediately after Republican President Donald Trump took office, according to a Free Beacon analysis of FOIA requests by the media from 2013 to the present.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D., Calif.) choice to lead the House Climate Crisis Committee owned stock in several companies that rank among the nation’s top air and water polluters.
President Donald Trump is keeping a campaign promise to reduce the size of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the agency’s recent employment numbers.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) released a statement on Tuesday applauding President Donald Trump and his administration’s roll back of an Obama administration climate rule.
President Donald Trump on Thursday accepted the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has been under scrutiny for multiple ethics scandals.
The New York Times over the weekend issued a lengthy correction to a front-page story on Environmental Protection Agency officials claiming that Scott Pruitt, the EPA’s administrator, used his position to solicit favors to admit that one of the incidents cited did not actually happen while he was with the agency.
Official documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon contradict claims made by a House Democrat alleging he and his staff were “blocked” last week from attending a summit on chemicals hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said America would soon be “energy dominant and energy independent,” a year after President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord.
New details of Scott Pruitt’s trip to Italy to attend the G-7 summit last summer undermine media reports painting the Environmental Protection Agency administrator’s trip as a lavish tourist vacation.
A former Trump campaign personal assistant turned Environmental Protection Agency whistleblower repeatedly cited by Democrats has a long history of run-ins with law enforcement, including a warning from a Secret Service detail, debt problems and other red flags that could have sunk his mandatory background check, legal experts say.
