Sanders: Trump Didn’t Mean He’d Literally Stop the Parkland Killer Like He Said He Would
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I missed this yesterday, but the endlessly shameless Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained at the daily press briefing what Donald Trump really meant when he said he would have “run in” to stop the Parkland killer even if he didn’t have a weapon: .@PressSec on Pres.…
Scott Pruitt Kills Agency That Studies Chemicals Harmful to Children
Tim O’Brien Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Those of us of a certain age will remember the dynamic duo of James Watt and Anne Gorsuch during the Reagan years. As Secretary of the Interior and administrator of the EPA, respectively, they did everything they could to make America friendly to…
Congress Just Got a Whole Lot of F’s on Their Environmental Report Card
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Republicans and Democrats have never been further apart on environmental issues. The top leadership in the GOP is comprised entirely of climate change deniers, while Democrats have aligned in opposition to President Trump’s agenda. But a report released today by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) calibrates the distance between…
Trump’s Company Won’t Say How Much It Made From Foreign Governments—But Swears It Gave It All Away
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Pres Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump Organization released a statement on Monday announcing it had donated all profits earned from foreign government spending at Trump-owned hotels to the U.S. Treasury. But the company declined to say how much profit was donated, where it was earned,…
Chart of the Day: African-American Unemployment, 1993-2018
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Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA Because He Thinks It’s God’s Plan
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt may be at the center of another Trump administration flight scandal over the skyrocketing costs of his first-class flights, but recently he’s been more likely to talk about how deeply his evangelical faith influences his work running the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt comes from…