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Trump: ‘Nobody Really Knows’ if Climate Change Is Real

Trump: ‘Nobody Really Knows’ if Climate Change Is Real

“Nobody really knows” if climate change is real, Donald Trump told Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News Sunday, despite decades of established science. We hope you enjoyed the show today w/ President-elect Trump as he spoke in his first Sunday show interview since winning the election. #fns pic.twitter.com/bosONSG6mJ — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) December 12, […]

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    As Trump Waffles on Climate, What Should We Believe?

    As Trump Waffles on Climate, What Should We Believe?

    Al Gore was the latest participant in the president-elect’s parade of pandering, meeting with daughter Ivanka Trump and then Donald Trump himself. Might this mean we might see a change his position on climate change? And will the impeccably cited letter to Ivanka or interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Dakota Access Pipeline, […]

    From Fracking Enthusiast to Exxon CEO: Trump’s Latest Picks

    From Fracking Enthusiast to Exxon CEO: Trump’s Latest Picks

    The Donald Trump camp added fracking enthusiast, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critic and ALEC-linked Amy Oliver Cooke to the EPA landing team on Thursday. Cooke once co-authored an op-ed titled Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret: Cancer. Trump Tower is President-elect Trump’s transition hub.Wikipedia NBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted that Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson […]

    EPA Watered Down Major Fracking Study to Downplay Water Contamination Risks

    EPA Watered Down Major Fracking Study to Downplay Water Contamination Risks

    A stunning new report from Marketplace and APM Reports reveals that top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials made critical, last-minute changes to the agency’s major fracking assessment to soft-pedal clear evidence that the controversial drilling process contaminates the nation’s water supplies. Fracking operations in Dimock, Pennsylvania contaminated local water supplies. Flickr We’ve already seen […]

    Court Fails to Protect Bees From Toxic Pesticides

    Court Fails to Protect Bees From Toxic Pesticides

    A judge in the Northern District of California delivered a crushing blow Monday to the nation’s beekeepers and imperiled honeybees. The judge ruled against the beekeepers and public interest advocates in a lawsuit seeking to protect honeybees and the broader environment from unregulated harms caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) lax policies for […]

    New USDA Data Shows 85% of Foods Tested Have Pesticide Residues

    New USDA Data Shows 85% of Foods Tested Have Pesticide Residues

    By Carey Gillam As Americans gather with their families for Thanksgiving this week, new government data offers a potentially unappetizing assessment of the U.S. food supply—Residues of many types of bug-killing pesticides, fungicides and weed killing chemicals have been found in roughly 85 percent of thousands of foods tested. Data released last week by the […]

    ‘Don’t Let a Climate Denier Take Over the EPA’

    ‘Don’t Let a Climate Denier Take Over the EPA’

    Climate activists projected huge images and text onto the front of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, DC Monday evening, calling on President-elect Donald Trump to not appoint climate change denier Myron Ebell as head of the agency. 350.org Using a high powered projector, activists with 350.org, ClimateTruth.org and the Sierra Club […]