![Senate Confirms Climate Change Skeptic Scott Pruitt To Lead The EPA [Opinion]](/images/placeholder.jpg)
On Friday afternoon, the Senate narrowly confirmed anti-climate change Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Ironically, Pruitt is a long-time critic of the EPA and has spent his career attempting to weaken the agency. Now that he has been confirmed as its head, its future is uncertain. The New
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t seem to think Donald Trump should be impeached. And the issue is a sticky one at best. Last week, the House minority leader told reporters that Trump had not yet committed any impeachable offenses, although she called his actions incoherent and reckless. Pelosi’s statement was in response to fellow Democratic Congresswoman Maxine
On Wednesday morning, actor Ashton Kutcher and Human Rights First CEO Elisa Massimino went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify against human trafficking and modern slavery. Chairman of the committee Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) has long been an advocate of ending human slavery and sex trafficking and praised Kutcher’s work in trying to
A pipeline in Texas burst on January 30, just days before the Trump administration approved the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. The Seaway pipeline near the tiny North Texas town of Blue Ridge spewed about 600,000 gallons of crude into the air after a subcontractor ruptured it. Local news KXII News 12 in