Anonymous ID: 664e4f April 18, 2018, 10:26 p.m. No.1098454   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8481

A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators signed a resolution introduced Wednesday that calls for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign.

 

The resolution states that the co-signers have "no confidence in the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and [are] calling for the immediate resignation of the Administrator."

 

Highlighted within the resolution are concerns about Pruitt's use of taxpayer money, "dramatic" budget cuts and waivers given to employees to work at connected companies while still employed by the EPA.

 

http:// thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/383802-170-lawmakers-sign-resolution-calling-for-epa-chiefs-resignation

Anonymous ID: 664e4f April 18, 2018, 10:37 p.m. No.1098585   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8613 >>8614 >>8630

EPA Chief’s $43,000 Phone Booth

 

He must be pretty important:

 

“I don’t see a reason for it,” said John O’Grady, president of a branch of the American Federation of Government Employees that represents thousands of EPA employees. “For crying out loud, the guy is the EPA administrator – not the CIA or the FBI.”

 

The installation cost more than $43,000, including having workers level the concrete floor so they could insert the pre-fabricated steel box. The Government Accountability Office – the watchdog of federal spending – says the expenditure violated laws on congressional notification and appropriations.

 

The GAO conclusion, contained in a report commissioned by Democratic lawmakers and released Monday, is one of a number of controversies surrounding Pruitt’s short tenure at the helm of the agency. He’s also being investigated for his use of first-class travel, renting a condo from a lobbyist and steering raises worth tens of thousands of dollars to aides over White House objections.

 

“An illegal privacy booth to conduct secret discussions with his polluter friends does nothing to help our health or environment,” said Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, one of several Democratic lawmakers who asked for the audit. “The list of ways he has abused his office just keeps getting longer.”

 

https:// www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-04-17/epa-s-43-000-secure-phone-booth-came-with-sound-trapping-vents