{"id":96298,"date":"2017-10-16T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pbs-airs-anti-pruitt-documentary-funded-by-environmentalist-group-backer.html"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:33:22","slug":"pbs-airs-anti-pruitt-documentary-funded-by-environmentalist-group-backer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/pbs-airs-anti-pruitt-documentary-funded-by-environmentalist-group-backer.html","title":{"rendered":"PBS airs anti- Pruitt documentary funded by environmentalist group backer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t                            <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><br \/>\n\t                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/media2.foxnews.com\/BrightCove\/694940094001\/2017\/10\/10\/896\/504\/694940094001_5604744512001_5604730333001-vs.jpg?ve=1tl=1\" alt=\"On 'Special Report,' the EPA Administrator discusses repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Scott Pruitt: The war on coal is over<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>On &#8216;Special Report,&#8217; the EPA Administrator discusses repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.<\/p>\n<p>A new PBS\u00a0<i>Frontline<\/i>\u00a0documentary that paints Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt as a tool for the fossil fuel industry received major funding from a group that has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to environmentalist activists like the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, &#8220;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">War on the EPA<\/a>,&#8221; received major support from the Kendeda Fund, an Atlanta-based nonprofit focused on the environment and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary features interviews with numerous Obama administration backers, including Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator, and Betsy Southerland, a former EPA director making $250,000 who claimed earlier this year she resigned in protest because of the Trump administration&#8217;s budget. Southerland was\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">eligible<\/a>\u00a0for early retirement and\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">told coworkers<\/a>\u00a0she was retiring because of family issues.<\/p>\n<p>Southerland tells PBS that Pruitt&#8217;s EPA is a &#8220;clear and present danger to public health and safety in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The documentary calls critics of the Obama administration&#8217;s wide-ranging regulatory actions targeting the coal industry and nuclear power plants &#8220;climate deniers&#8221; and &#8220;extreme.&#8221; The PBS narrator refers to Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.) as &#8220;the Senate&#8217;s leading climate change denier&#8221; and features Jane Mayer, a journalist with the\u00a0<i>New Yorker<\/i>, calling the Trump EPA &#8220;radical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Click for more from The Washington Free Beacon.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/Tvmm19vLRSM\/pbs-airs-anti-pruitt-documentary-funded-by-environmentalist-group-backer.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Pruitt: The war on coal is over On &#8216;Special Report,&#8217; the EPA Administrator discusses repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. A new PBS\u00a0Frontline\u00a0documentary that paints Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt as a tool for the fossil fuel industry received major funding from a group that has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-96298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}