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U.S. Democrats assail Trump environmental nominees over climate science – “You have a fringe voice that denies science, economics, and reality”

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Desdemona Despair

By Lisa Friedman
8 November 2017

WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – A Senate hearing on nominees for two top environmental posts on Wednesday quickly turned testy over the Trump administration’s ambivalence on climate change science.

Andrew R. Wheeler, a lobbyist for Murray Energy, which is owned by Robert E. Murray, an Appalachian coal mining magnate and prominent backer of President Trump, has been nominated to be the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Texas environmental regulator who has described belief in global warming as “a kind of paganism,” has been tapped to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Democratic members of the Environment and Public Works Committee focused much of their hostility on Mrs. White, a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the former chairwoman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Democrats assailed her past writings on climate change, including articles in which she called carbon dioxide “the gas of life” and described renewable energy as parasitic.

“Your positions are so far out of the mainstream, they are not just outliers, they are outrageous,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts. “You have a fringe voice that denies science, economics, and reality.”

Asked if she stood by her previous statements, Mrs. White replied, “It’s likely that CO2 has some influence on the climate,” but added that carbon dioxide did not have the characteristics of a pollutant that directly affects human health. “It’s a plant nutrient,” she said.

The Trump administration last week issued a comprehensive report on climate science that said that the planet was definitely growing warmer and that human activities were the predominant cause. Despite those unambiguous findings, administration officials and nominees continue to question the validity of climate change science.

Mr. Wheeler, a former aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, faced lighter questioning. He declined to pledge to recuse himself from working on lawsuits that Murray Energy has filed against the E.P.A., saying he would abide by the guidance of the agency’s ethics advisers. [more]

Democrats Assail Environmental Nominees Over Climate Change


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    • Fox Maine

      The US Gov is not going to do anything about the environment but “pimp” the problem to boost their chances for reelection. There are many thing that could be done which the US gov knows about but will act upon. First is a-boitic oil… This is oil taken from 30,000 ft deep where the planet “makes” oil. This has been know since the before the 80′s when the first wells were drilled in Russia proving this it true. Should the US gov “require US oil companies to drill these types of wells our gas could be less than $1 per gallon, with 50 cts not being out of the question.
      I patented zero emissions fuel-less utility power plants that run on gravity. Even though the US gov has funded “every new power plant all the way back to Thomas Edison’s first coal fired power plant, the gov built all our dams, made the turbine engine a reality and it powers our natural gas fired power plants, the gov also built our first nuclear reactors, 2 of which blew up in the late 50′s and our gov covered that up because our gov was pushing nuclear power. That push continues today even with the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters that have laid waste to our environment. The only utility power plant the US gov has not funded are the zero emissions fuel-less utility power plants I patented.
      I sent the every big name in the US gov all the way back to Bill Clinton. Al Gore wrote to me saying ” I wish you the best of luck! Im glad to see other’s are working on our energy needs.” Newt got this to the Southern Co the parent of Georgia power who offer to buy the patent for a fraction of the patent costs. Newt ended all communication when that offer was rejected. I have enough letters from every big name in the US gov to wall paper an office wall, but never 1 cent in funding.
      I was told should I ever get a plant built then lots of money was available, but no money was available until I got a plant built. That of course is lie, as Fusion has never produced any electric output but has gotten untold billions of gov money poured into that. My plants don’t burn anything, they make no heat, waste nothing, and consume nothing, so there is bomb making potential with my plant design. It’s just 100% clean almost unlimited electric power, that without the need for any fuel, and none to buy, this would be the cheapest electricity ever in history!
      So to sum up, all our gov’s talk about saving the environment is lies!!! IT’S FAR PAST TIME TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE!

    • desertspeaks

      this is all about MONEY! Just another HOW TO STEAL FROM THE MASSES!

      Has anyone ever told these climate liars that real science doesn’t have to skew, delete and modify findings, to fit the agenda? NOPE!

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