Normally, the news media covers the current and recent past, since “predictions are tough to make, especially concerning the future” (Yogi Berra). Yet the future coverage of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under whatever may remain of the Trump administration …
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Regarding the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, here’s a quote from a particularly eloquent friend:
Ironically, it looks like EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is going to lose his job because of rash expenditures like his $43,000 soundproof phone booth. In truth, the only reason anyone could possibly care about this is that it was made to …
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Dorothy: I thought you said she was dead. Glinda (aka Good Witch of the North): That was her sister, the Witch of the East. This is the Witch of the West, and she’s worse than the other one.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has had considerable success in helping his Big Oil clients run roughshod over the environment in their desperate quest to maintain their energy monopolies as far into the 21st Century as possible. But though the Trump …
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In our ongoing quest to make sense of the utterly inane goings on in U.S. politics today, it could be said that there are two vast categories of events unfolding every day: the unpredictable and the all-too-predictable.
Here’s a piece of good news for everyone who is totally indifferent to the health and safety of American children: yesterday’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and …
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If I asked you to name the very best year of your life thus far, you’d probably ask for clarification: Most joyful? Most productive? Most rewarding? You may end up talking about a graduation, your first love, the birth of your …
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From Time Magazine: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has broken months of silence about his frequent premium-class flights at taxpayer expense, saying he needs to fly first class because of unpleasant interactions with other travelers. Pruitt told the New …
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From Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest: Oil giant paying for air pollution improvements:
