Republican War Against The Environment

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Republicans and the Trump Administration are in a mad dash to change environmental rules and laws ahead of the midterms. The latest target - the Endangered Species Act, which has protected animals and wildlife for 45 years. Wildlife Expert and Biologist J
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Grist - 11 ways the Republican platform attacks the environment

Turn federal lands over to states. Abolish the EPA as we know it. Kill fracking regulations. And more!

burningissues.org - BurningIssues.org • View topic - A Republican War on the Environment

TheHill - Republican war on the environment It isn’t your fault if you tune into the House of Representatives floor proceedings this week and mistakenly think you’re watching “Groundhog Day.” During the last week Republicans will call the House into session before the November elections, Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor have chosen to bypass the important issues that the American public is asking for action on – a comprehensive jobs package, a bipartisan farm bill, dealing with the looming fiscal cliff and sequestration – in order to once again consider several extreme anti-environment and anti-public health bills that have already passed the House before but which will never pass the Senate or be signed into law by President Obama.

Mother Jones - When did Republicans start hating the environment?

Rolling Stone - Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming

Only one major political party in the world denies climate change, and it`s in charge of the most important political body in the world.

MSNBC - The Republican war on science intensifies in the Trump era

Republican officials, even at the EPA, are waging a war on science unlike anything we`ve seen in recent memory.

the Guardian - Republicans have so corrupted EPA, Americans can only save it in the voting booth | Dana Nuccitelli

Dana Nuccitelli: The Republican Party values polluter wealth over public health

The New Atlantis - The Conservative Record on Environmental Policy

There was no love lost for the Environmental Protection Agency during the 2012 Republican presidential primary season. The candidates sought to outdo one another in showing disdain for the EPA and steely opposition to new federal regulations. Michele Bachmann suggested in a TV interview that the agency be “renamed the job-killing organization of America,” while Newt Gingrich proposed shutting it down and starting over. The most conciliatory environmental posture any candidate adopted was to simply ignore the issue.

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