Air Pollution Kills More People Than Smoking
And as usual, it's the communities that are least responsible for it that suffer the most.
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Scott Pruitt's Testimony Before a Split Senate Committee Was Rowdy but Ultimately Unsurprising
Half the senators lobbed the EPA chief softball questions; the other half blasted his attempts at deregulation.
EPA Marks Seven Superfund Sites as Clean
Scott Pruitt has made Superfund site clean-up a priority, but the number of sites removed from the list in 2017 is on par with previous years.