President Donald Trump’s administration has officially put Americans on notice that it will be doing nothing to address climate change. Actually, worse than nothing, the Environmental Protection Agency also announced that it will soon be taking back everything it had done to date to address the biggest source of climate …
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Donald Trump has long called climate change a “hoax.” Some of his appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency have made clear over the first six months of the president’s second term that they feel similarly. The EPA is reportedly preparing to rescind a landmark 2009 declaration, known as the “endangerment …
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Lee Zeldin, the Trump-appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Thursday attempted to walk a fine line between placating conspiracy theorists and dispelling misinformation. Unfortunately, he seems to have left many people confused as to the agency’s actual policies and actions. “Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails,” Zeldin …
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It’s no secret that Donald Trump has zero interest in fighting climate change and enthusiastically supports the fossil fuel industry. Trump’s 2024 victory was expected to set the climate fight back, but in less than two months, his administration has already done irreparable harm to efforts to address climate change. …
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Confirmation hearings for a slew of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-ranking positions are scheduled to begin this week. Senate committees still have not received vetting materials for several nominees, and many of their financial disclosures and ethics disclosures have not yet been made public. On Monday, …
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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, received millions of dollars in exchange for consulting, speeches, and paid op-eds, according to financial disclosure documents. The payments, first reported by Business Insider, include $186,000 from op-eds and speeches alone. Zeldin also disclosed $45,475 in casino …
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While the country is focused on President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks, such as Kash Patel for FBI director or Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, the fossil fuel industry is surely celebrating a pick that has mostly flown under the radar. Trump has chosen Lee Zeldin to …
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