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Watch "War on the EPA" for the backstory on how the battle over environmental regulations and climate science has been waged. 
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PIRatE Lab's insight:
The magnitude of the environmental degradation along both coasts of Florida has risen in prominence to the point that even the famously anti-regulation, climate change-denying state leadership is being forced to face the subject.
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Trump has no legal grounds to overturn California's anti-smog rules.
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We’ve collected the highlights from what turned out to be a daylong grilling over allegations of ethical infractions and lavish spending by the E.P.A. head.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Amazing that this individual has been allowed to keep his job. The bar for what constitutes professional behavior is being lowered and lowered and lowered in our federal agencies (at least for the leadership and the upper levels of administrators).
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Oklahoma Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt, whose Senate confirmation hearing begins Wednesday, has been unabashed in his disdain for the agency he is seeking to run.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is simply insane. The utter lack of consistency and disdain for a healthy, clean planet is offensive.
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The judge excoriated the New York AG, but also said: 'nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon from responsibility for contributing to climate change.'
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The Trump administration’s plan to relax fuel-economy and vehicle pollution standards could be a boon to U.S. oil producers who’ve quietly lobbied for the measure.
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The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.
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A study released by Yale and George Mason Universities reports on a national survey of American opinions. The survey found that almost 70% of registered voters in the U.S. believe that their country should participate in international agreements to limit global warming. Only 1 in 8 registered voters believe the U.S. should not participate in… Via Garry Rogers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We have seen the same thing in our polling here in California.
Garry Rogers's curator insight,
December 20, 2016 7:52 AM
Most Americans from all political parties, recognize the threat from global warming and want the President and Congress to deal with the problem.
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