First-Ever EPA Chief Admits The Agency Has Gotten Out Of Control

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The first-ever Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator reluctantly admitted the agency he headed under both the Nixon and Reagan administrations has gotten out of control in recent years. “I almost hate to say yes, because it will skew what I’m about to say. But the answer is yes,” Bill Ruckelshaus, the first and fifth EPA […]

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March 24, 2017 at 06:24AM

Enviros Prepare For Multi-Pronged Battle Against Revived Keystone Pipeline

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Activists are gearing up for another rousing multi-pronged fight against the recently revived Keystone XL Pipeline. Environmentalists such as Sara Shor have promised to “raise hell” and recruit millions of people to fight the multi-billion dollar project. Activists also intend to bring the fight directly to lawmakers at town hall meetings along the project’s nearly […]

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March 24, 2017 at 06:24AM

Climate media news coverage collapsed in the 2009 election year

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After the 2009 peak of Copenhagen-fever and  ClimateGate, media coverage dropped precipitously. Then there’s been a kind of dead cat bounce as the extreme voodoo climate meme was pumped and every hot afternoon became a front page headline. But media interest has plummeted — and in a US election year. To some extent this was coming as the crowd was tired of the hottest year after the hottest year, the tipping points came and went, the apocalypse didn’t happen but the fatigue did. But there is more to that crash that just weariness. Looks like Trump just killed climate news…

See Grist: Major TV Networks spent just 50 minutes on climate change combined last year…

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Climate broadcast coverage was already over the peak before the election year, but the crushing collapse in a “hottest ever massive El Nino year” says a lot. Trumps mockery of the topic was something the media news broadcasters couldn’t handle. It wasn’t a case of Any News Is Good News as the cliche goes, if Trump or the Deplorables had been given any real airtime the whole rent-seeking fantasy gravy train would have run off the rails.

The Boy Who Cried Warming had […]

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March 24, 2017 at 06:08AM

Al Gore: I’ve Got 10 GOP Senators Ready To Fight Trump On Global Warming

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Former Vice President Al Gore claimed 10 Republican senators are ready to turn on President Donald Trump on global warming policy. “There’s a new development, there are now 30 Republican members of the House of Representatives who have changed sides on this issue and have become part of a group committed to solving the climate […]

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March 24, 2017 at 05:54AM