Thursday, December 08, 2016

A Man for No Seasons: Trump's Climate Change Denying EPA Head Nominee

Trump Picks Leading Climate Denier to Head EPA During Time of Climate Crisis

by TRNN


December 8, 2016

Donald Trump has just appointed Oklahoma Attorney-General Scott Pruitt as Head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt's past election campaigns were all funded by big oil giants such as ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Alliance Coal -- that's just to mention a few. Bernie Sanders has said he opposed the "sad and dangerous move".

Joining us now to talk about this and what kind of climate disasters are upon us is Dahr Jamail. He is an award-winning journalist and author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, and his upcoming book, The End of Ice. It is forthcoming from The New Press. Thank you so much for joining us, Dahr.



This year is going to be the hottest on record - and Trump and 

his cabinet couldn't have come to power at a worse time

 

Dahr Jamail has written extensively about climate change as well as the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is the author of two books: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq and The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

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