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The Latest Happenings of Zinke’s Corrupt Interior Department

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

The happenings within the Trump administration can read like a soap opera. The recent departures of two top Interior Department officials are the latest storyline. Downey Magallanes, former deputy chief of staff and a top adviser to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, resigned on August 24. She already started a new job at BP. She worked on policy and operations, according…

Scott Pruitt resigns - Good Riddance! Drain the Swamp!

Scott Pruitt Is Out As EPA Head

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned on July 5 after a growing chorus called for his resignation amidst allegations that tainted his tenure. The allegations included having a top aide help with personal matters, including apartment hunting, family vacation planning, and finding him a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel. Pruitt is the first EPA administrator to spend $3 million…

Trump's men willing to do his anti-environmental agenda

Interior Secretary and EPA Chief Do Trump’s Dirty Environmental Bidding

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

President Trump is no friend to the environment. Months after being in office, he pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty. He has made it clear he wants more fossil fuels pumped out of the ground, even at the expense of public lands. And he has two cronies to carry out his policies. Those cronies are Ryan Zinke,…

Growing Chorus Calls For the Ouster of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

The chorus calling for the ouster of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has grown bigger and louder. Forty environmental, civic, labor and social justice organizations took out full-page ads calling the resignation of Pruitt. The ad appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post and The Oklahoman, which is the largest paper in Pruitt’s home state, Oklahoma….

Trump Replaces Rex Tillerson With Someone Who May Be Worse

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

Twitter is now the accepted format to make major political announcements. President Trump announced on the social media site that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Trump’s tweet proclaimed that “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson…

The EPA’s Plans to Gut the Clean Water Rule

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Gina-Marie Cheeseman | 0 Comments

President Trump vowed “to promote clean air and clear water” in February 2017. Flash forward a year and that promise seems to be a flimsy one at best. The Trump administration has recently made it clear it will gut an Obama-era rule designed to protect smaller bodies of water in the U.S. On January 21, 2018, the EPA and the…

Climate change, the Pentagon, and Gaslight

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Climate change is hereby canceled A story published last week in Reuters led with the headline “Pentagon strategy document will not include climate change” Sure, that’s the “official” statement. Gotta keep Mr. Trump and his bumbling buddies happy. Like the president says, “bundle up!” In fact, the military has long understood climate change as a threat multiplier. Like the insurance…

The Latest Happenings of Zinke’s Corrupt Interior Department

Scott Pruitt Is Out As EPA Head

Interior Secretary and EPA Chief Do Trump’s Dirty Environmental Bidding

Growing Chorus Calls For the Ouster of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt

Trump Replaces Rex Tillerson With Someone Who May Be Worse

The EPA’s Plans to Gut the Clean Water Rule

Climate change, the Pentagon, and Gaslight

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