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'Finally!': Court Orders EPA to Stop Stalling Potential Ban on Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Kids

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'Part of a Disturbing Trend of Willful Ignorance,' Say Scientists, After Investigation Shows EPA, Texas Rejected Air Quality Data Post-Hurricane Harvey

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas.

New reporting in Los Angeles Times reveals Trump administration's disregard for data, science, public health, environment following 2017 catastrophic storm

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GOP Slammed for 'Shameful' Vote as Ex-Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Confirmed as EPA Chief

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Senate Republicans have officially put a coal lobbyist in charge of protecting...

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With Corporate Interests at the Helm, EPA Polluter Fines Down 85%, Hitting Lowest Level in 25 Years

Julia Conley, staff writer

"With its scientists censored and a coal lobbyist in charge, its no wonder why...

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Trump Nomination of Wheeler Ensures EPA Will Continue to Put 'Profits of Polluters' Over Human Health and Planet

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Report on President's Environmental Record 'Reminds Us That Trump Soap Opera Has Dire Real-World Consequences'

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'Astounding': Email Shows Ex-EPA Chief Pruitt Locked Out His Own Agency's Top Experts While Hatching War on Science

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EPA Exodus: Nearly 1,600 Workers Have Left Since Trump Took Office

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Former Koch Industries Lawyer Turned Top Trump EPA Official Set to Deliver Major Win for Big Polluters

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'Major Victory for Public Health': Court Orders Trump EPA to Ban Pesticide That Harms Kids' Brains

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In 'Major Win' for Clean Air and Public Health, EPA Reverses Pruitt's 'Super-Polluting' Truck Loophole

In Pruitt's Last Giveaway to Polluters—and Wheeler's First as Agency Chief—EPA Lifts Cap on 'Super Polluting' Trucks

Pruitt Gone, But "No Happy Ending" for Planet as Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Takes Over EPA

Finally! 'Victory for People and the Planet' as EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns

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Watch: Woman Confronts Pruitt at Restaurant, Demands He Resign for What He's 'Doing to Environment and Country'

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EPA Ethics Chief Calls for Probes of Pruitt as Emails Show "Open-Door Policy" With Industry Lobbyists

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Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Former EPA Head Scott Pruitt Hired as Lobbyist to Save Coal in Indiana. (He Can’t)

Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Newly Uncovered Documents Show Pruitt Spent Nearly $900,000 on Personal Security for Travel

Friends of the Earth

GOP Blocks Effort to Hold Pruitt Accountable

Center for Biological Diversity

Emergency Lawsuit Challenges EPA’s Super-polluter Truck Loophole

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pruitt’s Truck Decision a Test for New Administrator Wheeler

Public Citizen

Pruitt’s Exit Is Deserved, But Won’t Change the Trump Administration

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Elliott Negin

10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year

Juan Cole

Top 5 Trump Officials Who Resigned Because of Shocking Scandals

Mike Lofgren

Reverse Darwinian Selection Afflicts Trump’s Washington

Robert Reich

Trump's "Deep State" Is Trump’s Corrupt State

Kai Olson-Sawyer

Why Scott Pruitt Still Matters in the Trump Era

Ansje Miller , Zack Kaldveer

Toxic Corruption: The Chemical Industry Keeps Pulling EPA's Strings

Christopher Brauchli

Scott Pruitt, the Wall Street Journal, and Trump's Swamp

Derrick Z. Jackson

How Dangerous is New EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler? Very. Here’s Why.

Jill Richardson

Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His Planetary Sabotage Is Worse

Justin Anderson

Focus on Pruitt’s Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump