Concurrent with his wanton disregard for the climate, Trump essentially attacked our environment the moment he entered office, appointing misfit Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator (eventually replaced by Andrew Wheeler) and rolling back if not eliminating more than 100 environmental safeguards — Obama-era emissions rules for power plants and vehicles — under the guise of …
With USA representing the second largest producer of greenhouse gasses of the 195 countries who had signed onto the accord, Trump’s singular withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement has severely impeded our ability to reduce if not eliminate the harm we’ve caused to our atmosphere which scientists agree is already resulting in climatic swings leading …
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“Both parties are complicit in the race to the bottom that has corroded the judicial confirmation process over the past two decades. But Senate Republicans’ abandonment of their own Garland principle would represent a singularly dangerous step down, after which recovery might be impossible. Are there not four Republican senators, which is all it would …