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Greening the Tea Party
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From the New Yorker in 2015. Still has valuable information on Debbie Dooley, Tea Party Conservative who has gone green on solar.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/green-tea-party-solar
EPA Moves to Dismantle Protections from Lead Paint
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The Washington Post reports on Trump's EPA's latest attack on health...
Even Scott Pruitt Thinks Trump is Going Too Far....
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Even Scott Pruitt, Trump’s climate science-denying EPA administrator, seems to feel Trump’s cuts go too far. When an initial budget proposal surfaced slashing the EPA’s funding from $8.2 billion to $6 billion, Pruitt expressed concern about the effect a reduced budget would have on programs aimed at cleaning up and repurposing toxic and polluted sites, a function of the agency that he supports. The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush and Coral Davenport report that Pruitt lobbied Trump to rethink the cuts, but his appeal, apparently, didn’t work: Trump’s finalized budget flouts his EPA administrator’s wishes by calling for even deeper cuts than initially proposed, slashing the agency’s budget to about $5.7 billion.
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Even Scott Pruitt Thinks Trump is Going Too Far
At Trump's EPA, Going to Work Can Be An Act of Defiance
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A sobering report from the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-epa-staff-morale-20170404-story.html
Carol and Vicki Ask Absentee Representative Schweikert About the Environment
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Representative David Schweikert was invited to a recent Town Hall meeting. Schweikert did not show but our members Carol and Vicki did with questions concerning his hideous environmental track record. Click read more for video links:
Get Ready for Trump's Climate-Denial Offensive
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Believe it or not Rex Tillerson is defending the Climate Accords against Steve Bannon and his ilk. Guess who will probably win?
Read this in the Washington Post:
Get Ready for Trump's Climate Denial Offensive
Slashes to NOAA - Why Are These People Smiling?!
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Trump speeds up the degradation of the environment by slashing NOAA budget. Click on the link to the Washington Post article below...
Why Are These People Smiling?!
4 Pinocchios for Trump on Waters Rule
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The Pinocchio Test
Trump made several problematic statements in his remarks. He claimed that the Waters of the United States rule affected puddles and ditches; it affected some ditches, and technically has an exemption for puddles. But opponents of the rule say that since a “puddle” is not defined in the rule, the EPA can still regulate what some people may consider puddles. Trump also exaggerated details of a case involving a Wyoming rancher.
The focus of our fact-check is whether the rule cost “hundreds of thousands of jobs,” and there is no evidence to support that. After the rule was issued in 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a nationwide stay blocking it from taking effect. We checked with key industry groups that opposed the rule, but did not find research into the impact of the rule on jobs after it was halted in 2015. The rule has been in limbo since, so it is not credible that any jobs have been lost.
Four Pinocchios
Trump Directs Rollback of Obama-era Water Rule
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The Washington Post reports:
Trump Directs Rollback of Obama-era Water rule He Calls Destructive and Horrible"