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EPA chief Scott Pruitt tapped aide, donors to help wife land job at conservative group

EPA chief Scott Pruitt tapped aide, donors to help wife land job at conservative group

Those efforts raise more ethics questions for the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator.
Leif Fredrickson, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Christopher Sellers: Would firing Scott Pruitt save the EPA?
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Leif Fredrickson, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Christopher Sellers: Would firing Scott Pruitt save the EPA?

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the agency's history also ends.
Labor and civil rights organizations call for EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ouster
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Labor and civil rights organizations call for EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ouster

The NAACP wants the EPA administrator to resign or be fired.
EPA takes toxic site flooded by Harvey off special cleanup list
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EPA takes toxic site flooded by Harvey off special cleanup list

The EPA says the San Jacinto Waste Pits near Houston no longer needs Scott Pruitt's personal attention due to progress on a remediation plan. But the site is still years away from being cleaned up.
GOP oversight chairman demands more records on Pruitt’s travel, housing
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GOP oversight chairman demands more records on Pruitt’s travel, housing

The EPA “has failed to produce all the documents” requested by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), according to a letter Wednesday.
EPA chief says agency scientists are free to present their work publicly
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EPA chief says agency scientists are free to present their work publicly

The Environmental Protection Agency will not block its scientists from freely discussing their work in public, Administrator Scott Pruitt promised lawmakers this week, in the wake of a recent incident in which researchers were barred from presenting findings on climate change at a conference.

In unprecedented move, EPA to block scientists who get agency funding from serving as advisers
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In unprecedented move, EPA to block scientists who get agency funding from serving as advisers

Barring any researcher who receives EPA grant money from serving as an adviser to the agency would "represent a major purge of independent scientists," a past advisory board director said.
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