[Vision2020] 5-29-18: Emails Reveal Pruitt and EPA Coordinating with Climate-Denying Heartland Institute

[Ted Moffett]

EPA chief Pruitt apparently needs more than a sound proof phone booth....
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*Scott Pruitt’s $43,000 soundproof phone booth violated spending laws,
federal watchdog finds*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/16/scott-pruitts-43000-soundproof-phone-booth-violated-spending-laws-federal-watchdog-finds/?utm_term=.8a8659510296
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He should also utilize more stealthy email communications to hide his
ethically questionable behavior:

Emails Reveal Pruitt and EPA Coordinating with Climate-Denying Heartland
Institute

https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/29/emails-reveal-pruitt-epa-coordinating-climate-denying-heartland-institute?utm_source=dsb%20newsletter

By Justin Mikulka <https://www.desmogblog.com/user/justin-mikulka> •
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

A lawsuit filed in March
<https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/press-releases/groups-sue-for-information-about-heartland-institutes-involvement-in-epa-climate-science-decisions>
by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Environmental Defense Fund has
revealed new levels of coordination between Scott Pruitt
<https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt>'s Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and the climate science-denying think tank the Heartland Institute
<https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute>.

The EPA had repeatedly failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act
requests by the two groups, which resulted in the lawsuit and subsequent
release of the email communications.



EPA emails could contradict Pruitt testimony on apartment hunt

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/pruitt-apartment-search/index.html

By Gregory Wallace <https://www.cnn.com/profiles/gregory-wallace>

Updated 8:08 PM ET, Thu May 31, 2018

Washington (CNN)Newly released emails appear to contradict EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt's account in recent congressional testimony that
the aide who assisted him with his apartment hunt did so "on personal
time."
The emails, released by three Democratic senators who have been
investigating Pruitt's actions at the Environmental Protection Agency, show
a scheduler in Pruitt's office corresponded with a real estate agent during
typical work hours.

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