Tag Archive for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

Attorneys General Sue Trump EPA for Allowing Toxic Chlorpyrifos on Food Crops

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By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of six state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the Trump Environmental Protection Agency for continuing to allow the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on crops that end up contaminating common foods and endangering the neurological development of…

Gutting the EPA Confirms Trump’s Damning ‘Alabamafication’ of America

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ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…

Doublespeak: Trump Guts EPA While Claiming to be for Protecting the Environment

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By Glynn Wilson – New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt recently told Fox News that Trump’s new executive order abandoning work on climate change and promoting fossil fuels is a return to “core EPA originalism.” This is clearly a perfect example of “doublespeak,” a term inspired by George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The creation of the…