Chris D'Angelo
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senior reporter on the enviro beat @HuffPost / @HuffPostUnion + @WGAEast / fan of native trout, wood grain & Blues hockey /[email protected]
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Florida has become an epicenter of coral restoration. but if success is measure by the amount of live coral on the reef, the campaign is in dire straights. “If the coal mine is the Keys, the canary is dead". my latest, w/ amazing photos by Jason Gulley.
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"I am hereby notifying you that you are not welcome to visit our homelands," Julian Bear Runner, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, wrote in a letter to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Thursday.
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the National Park Service has its first confirmed director in nearly five years. Charles "Chuck" Sams III was sworn in today, making history as the first Native American tribal citizen to lead the agency
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during the Montana Senate debate, Tim Sheehy said of PERC: "no one, including myself, in that organization has ever advocated for selling our public lands, never have never will" . fact check: false
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At least four Senate Rs — Rick Scott, Mitt Romney, Cindy Hyde-Smith and Steve Daines — tweeted support for US troops within hours, in some cases minutes, of blocking a bill meant to expand health care benefits for vets exposed to toxic chemicals.
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the thing about moderators "fact-checking only one side" is that that is what happens when only one person lies with every response.
Mike Johnson on Fox Business insists Trump actually won the debate, citing polls from Newsmax and the Daily Caller (sounds legit)
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Fauci straight up shrugged him off
Jim Jordan is out here asking Dr. Fauci a series of gotcha questions about the possibility that #BlackLivesMatter protesters are spreading the coronavirus
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Let's be clear about what Trump is doing here (assuming this order is, in fact, real): He's punishing wildfire victims over perceived forest mismanagement by the state, despite the fact that many of the worst fires primarily burned federally managed lands.
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the hate pipeline btw Libs of TikTok and The Blaze (Glenn Beck's media outlet) is exactly 45 minutes long
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Wild interview w/ White House Deputy Director of Communications Adam Kennedy. Kennedy: “This President was proud of this country under President Obama.”. Trump’s campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again.”.
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i would say "boy, the oil and gas industry sure is getting a lot of free advertising from lawmakers this week," but it absolutely paid for every bit of it.
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here is a very cool photo of a very cool bird (a bat falcon) only because i noticed @TheBirdist was out chasing one recently and found myself looking at pics . the bat falcon.
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a U.S. senator peddling misinformation about the Texas power outages in order to take cheap shots at the nominee for Interior secretary. good look.
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serious question: how many COVID-19 infections/deaths per day would it take for Trump to think twice about saying that the U.S. is in good shape?.
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new: OH officials appear to have relied solely on prelim H20 sampling conducted by a rail contractor to initially declare water in East P. safe. Ind. experts called sampling "sloppy" & "amateur"—initial batch not collected in accordance w/ EPA standards.
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Here's what two Interior Dept. officials had to say about CNN correspondent @Rene_MarshCNN after she . did her job. @DOIPressSec Heather Swift: "Rene is a fucking idiot.". Russell Newell, deputy director of communications: "She sounds like one."
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ok so we've got. -cyber-attack.-biden's border policies.-covid lockdowns.-DEI.-drug-addled crew.-the green new deal. what am i missing?.
Newsmax hosts and Nancy Mace reach to blame the Baltimore bridge collapse on the infrastructure bill that Biden signed into law
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Remember 36 hours ago, when the leading international body of climate change researchers issued a dire warning to the world? You know, that whole act-now-or-prepare-for-crisis thing?. This is really something we should *all* still be taking about.
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here's a chunk of the 7-minute heated exchange on public lands between Tester and Sheehy last night. starts with Sheehy falsely claiming PERC has never advocated for selling federal lands
during the Montana Senate debate, Tim Sheehy said of PERC: "no one, including myself, in that organization has ever advocated for selling our public lands, never have never will" . fact check: false
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former President of the United States of America wildly misrepresents climate science in order to falsely argue that rising seas = "MORE beachfront property" . might be funny if it weren't so goddamn depressing.
Trump, speaking in Alaska, dismisses climate change and rising sea levels: "We have bigger problems than that. We'll have a little more beachfront property. That's not the worst thing in the world."
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Bears Ears National Monument in Utah was established at the request of Native American tribes to honor and protect their cultural heritage. Trump's dismantling of the monument was widely viewed as an attack on tribes, tribal sovereignty and tribal culture.
Last night, law enforcement stopped vandalism taking place in Lafayette Park. President @realDonaldTrump will not allow rioters to dismantle our cultural heritage.
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looks like we've gone from "Dems create hurricanes" to "abortion causes hurricanes".
Tucker Carlson: "People are like, 'oh, well, we had another hurricane, it must be global warming.' No! It's probably abortion, actually. Just being honest. You can't kill children on purpose. You can't participate in human sacrifice without consequences."
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Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a sweeping plan to protect America's public lands and waters.
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"There's no more water pouring through," Trump says of trees that have fallen down. "They just explode.".
"They can explode" -- Trump's attempt to explain how poor forest management leads to wildfires is totally beyond parody
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ok. now do coal, oil, gas.
"There are more men and women who have died from wind turbines than nuclear power" -- science with Byron Donalds
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News: Biden's Interior Department has delayed Trump's rule permanently slashing protections for migratory birds. Agency will review the rule and hold a 20-day public comment period to gather additional input.
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icymi: The pocket Constitution that Sen. Lee brandished during ACB's hearing is the same edition that anti-government militiamen carried during the Bundy and Malheur standoffs.
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i'm told these pro-public land mailers are landing in Montana voters' mailboxes. look closely and you'll notice Sheehy is wearing a PERC shirt. PERC is the nonprofit that Sheehy failed to disclose his board post at & that has a history of advocating for privatizing public lands
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climate reporters around the country sip extra strong coffee and ponder how to write a lede they've written 100 goddamn times before.
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This gorgeous pup was just rescued from a flooded neighborhood in South Lumberton. She’s soo happy. Brent Scott drove down from Maine to help with animal rescues.
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Exactly one week after declaring June as National Oceans Month. Trump is set to gut protections for a marine national monument off the East Coast. A very happy oceans month, America. w/ @AlexCKaufman .
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that whole back/forth on public lands just now during Montana Senate debate — how Sheehy called for turning public lands over to states, how he failed to disclose his board tenure and PERC and scrubbed a PERC logo from his shirt in a TV ad — I broke all that for Huffpost dot com.
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The president, who promised lengthy prison sentences for anyone who damages a monument, has been dismantling and desecrating protected monuments since he took office.
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Scalise: FBI agents went rogue. Doocy: who went roque?. Scalise: we want to find that out. amazing.
"Whatever happened to the Republican Party backing the blue?" -- Steve Doocy to Steve Scalise
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@jamieson big week for this.
@andersoncooper on Donald Trump: “Just two weeks ago he did incite an erection on the Capitol, an insurrection on the Capitol.” 🙊 😬 😅 #blooper #cnn #andersoncooper
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i'm reminded of DOI Sec. Deb Haaland's confirmation hearing, when three GOP senators took offense to an Oct. tweet in which Haaland said "Rs don’t believe in science". Marshall is among the doctors Barrasso was referring to here.
"No one has convinced me that masks really work" -- Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who is a doctor (masks are demonstrated to reduce the spread of Covid)
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"a mediocre bird"
Rep. Boebert dismisses the greater sage-grouse, an indicator species for the West's sagebrush ecosystems, a "mediocre bird". worth pointing out that Terra Energy, an oil/gas company, pays Boebert's husband nearly half a million dollars per year.
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What Zinke doesn't mention: "This guy" was discovered **in Grand Staircase-Escalante**—one of 2 national monuments he and Trump slashed. The plaque lists the original acreage (1.9 million) and notes the site's "extraordinary opportunities for scientific research."
Hoping the new #JurassicWorld movie will have a Lythronax. The “King of Gore” was a T-Rex type dino that once roamed the west. This guy was found by @BLMUtah crews in 2009. He currently presides over meetings in my office 🦖
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President Donald Trump dismantled national monuments. President-elect Joe Biden has committed to undo the damage.
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the only real takeaway here is that Trump is absolutely petrified, like deathly afraid, of the ocean.
Trump is now ranting about batteries and shark attacks. I dare you to try to make sense of this.
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Glad to see you reading @HuffPost, @JohnMayer. So, yes, that’s the rule. with one exception being in a headline. Keep on ripping that 🎸 w/ @deadandcompany. We journos got this covered.
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breaking: Biden Interior Dept. has rescinded the controversial 2017 legal opinion from former DOI solicitor Daniel Jorjani that allowed all unintentional migratory bird deaths, including those caused by oil and gas operations, chemical spills, power lines and wind turbines.
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when i first reported that Sheehy had called for federal lands to be "turned over" to states, counties, his campaign tried to argue that "turn over" doesn't mean "transfer". this from the Daily Montanan is further proof that that explanation was nonsense.
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The @SafariClubIntl (a hunter advocacy group) — not the @USFWS — announces the Trump administration's reversal of an Obama-era ban on importing elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. #2017.
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"The president is committed to unifying our country".
Trump's inauguration was a very bizarre weekend in DC, but no moment shocked me more than Sean Spicer angrily taking to the White House podium to declare war on objective reality. It really set the tone for the four years we just endured.
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Emails released as part of a public records request show that on Oct. 3 Marsh asked Interior several follow up questions regarding Zinke's travel. Days later, she still didn't have answers, so she sent this email — which Swift and Newell clearly didn't care for.
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and just like that, i hate fishing now. all done.
They're not beating the weirdness allegations (believe it or not, this is a real ad running on Newsmax)
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some personal news: i move to Maine next week. same job, same beat, same kick-ass team. i'll just be doing it a stone's throw from the forests, mountains and rivers i've grown to love since moved East. if you've got a pitch for an enviro story in the NE, do get in touch.
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you'll absolutely never guess which industry has given the most money to Johnson over his career.
NEW -- MIKE JOHNSON, who is likely to win the speakership today, says he will pass the Energy and Water approps bill THIS WEEK
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ok, so. the 60 seconds would have somehow fixed the feet-glued-to-the-floor problem?. after 60 seconds, "the other side" (the US tennis association?) would provide a rebuttal on climate?. what are you talking about?.
Vivek Ramaswamy says protesters at the US Open tennis tournament should've been given an open mic for a minute
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late to this, but i love that his story relies on a boat expert who says "they want us to make all-electric boats" and you can bet your life savings that this person, if he exists, has never once made an electric boat, nevermind seen one.
Trump is now ranting about batteries and shark attacks. I dare you to try to make sense of this.
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if you're a teenager in St. Louis and you ended up getting grounded (or worse) because your parents watched this segment, ripped apart your room and found a dime bad of weed, i'd like to hear from you. DMs are open.
Looks like a normal teen’s bedroom, right? Think again. Coming up on @KMOV, we’ll show you what parents should be looking for so they can identify signs of drug use. I was shocked at what I found in this room!!! #stl #n4tm
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NEW: The sampling of E. Palestine's municipal water has been a mess. State relying on railroad-funded testing to declare water safe. "Sloppy" sampling. Dodgy answers. 20 days after the derailment, no independent water quality data has been made public.
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Fox host Ainsley Earhardt: "He's saying, 'I've studied this and I believe it.' Because he is Ivy League trained, and he's such — he LOVES to read.".
DeSantis on Biden linking climate change with severe storms: "Why are you trying to politicize the weather?"
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JD Vance yesterday…. “I don’t think Most Americans — whether they like her music, or [are] fans of hers or not — are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans,”.
Following Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris, there has been a "400% or 500% increase" in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour, according to data firm TargetSmart. "It's really unlike anything I've seen," says TargetSmart senior adviser Tom Bonier.
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new: Interior's internal watchdog finds that agency political appointees delayed the release of ~250 pages of #FOIA docs on David Bernhardt ahead of his confirmation as agency chief. @RonWyden/@RepRaulGrijalva are demanding a criminal perjury probe.
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Today is Ryan Zinke's last day at Interior. He sold himself as a Rooseveltian conservationist. Then he went to bat for industry. After a year on the job, he promised a "grand pivot" from energy development to conservation. It never arrived. My latest: .
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Biden’s environment team picks appear to signal the incoming administration’s plans to embed climate policies at the state level, making it harder for the next GOP president to undo Biden-era progress. new w/ @AlexCKaufman .
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this is what you would hear if you could somehow interview a pumpjack.
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Ryan Zinke insisted a security staffer go to the roof of Interior HQ to raise/lower a special secretarial flag every time he entered/left the building. Deb Haaland just went to the roof herself to raise the first Pride flag to ever fly above DOI HQ.
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Today is the 10-year anniversary of Deepwater Horizon. Experts and environmental advocates warn that the U.S. remains woefully unprepared for a major oil spill ― an perhaps even more at risk of one.
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curious how Sen. Daines's line of questions to Deb Haaland compares to his Qs of Ryan Zinke & David Bernhardt?. I wrote down every one. It's night/day. He told Zinke Indian Country would be lucky to have him. No Q to Haaland about how she'd support tribal nations. full breakdown:
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At least 30 EPA employees spent their lunch hour at a rally calling for the removal of their embattled boss. via @HuffPostPol.
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For anyone closely following the monument review, today's @nytimes story comes as no surprise. Here's what Trump had to say when he announced his review in April. Remember, this is ~2 months before Zinke recommended he shrink Bears Ears.
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Hours after being sworn in, President Joe Biden rescinded a permit for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline -- a project that Trump championed.
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the newfound anti-wind whale guardians really show their colors when they condemn vessel speed limits (vessel strikes are one of the primary threats to right and other whale species). here's what CFACT’s Collister Johnson told me when I pressed him about it.
Trump in South Carolina claims that Biden is "trying to bludgeon the boating and maritime industry . with a speed limit of less than 11 miles an hour." He then says the real whale killers are "windmills.". "They're driving the whales a little batty," Trump adds.
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the current Montana Republican Party platform, adopted in June…
Happy Public Lands Day! Whether you shoot a rifle or a camera, they belong to all of us. Don’t let radical Missoula environmental lawyer Monica Tranel give away your public lands to her clients who just want to shut down public access, build miles of solar fields, and take away
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Montana GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte isn’t interested in helping combat climate change, but wants federal assistance to deal with Montana's worsening drought.
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In an attempt to save face, the Trump admin will keep national parks/monuments/memorials open in a shutdown. ⏲️ . Former Interior officials call the move dangerous and "incredibly idiotic.".
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Rep. Boebert dismisses the greater sage-grouse, an indicator species for the West's sagebrush ecosystems, a "mediocre bird". worth pointing out that Terra Energy, an oil/gas company, pays Boebert's husband nearly half a million dollars per year.
The husband of Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert made $478,000 last year as a consultant for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert's congressional campaign and only reported in her financial disclosure forms filed this week.
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Sec. Bernhardt says he didn't see the news that atmospheric CO2 soared past 415 ppm -- the highest levels in human history. Asked if he's concerned, Bernhardt says, "I haven't lost any sleep over it.".
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NEWS: Ryan Zinke, the Trump-era Interior chief, violated ethics rules and misused his office by remaining directly involved in a Montana real estate project after joining the Trump administration, the agency's internal watchdog found.
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In their waning days in power, Trump officials are pushing ahead with a controversial land swap/mine project in Arizona. Over time, the vast underground mine will collapse on itself, swallowing an historic Apache cultural site into a crater.
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oil and gas industry using the conflict to call for more domestic oil and gas production. oil and gas industry-bankrolled lawmakers using the conflict to call for more domestic oil and gas production.
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icymi over the weekend. Ohio officials relied solely on railroad-funded water sampling — collected and handled not in compliance with EPA standard methods — to initially declare the water in East Palestine safe.
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Joe Biden literally kicked off his speech yesterday by talking about the pandemic.
Anyone notice that the Dems stopped talking about COVID?.
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Trump: "We're learning to live with .[the coronavirus]. We have no choice.". Biden: "We’re learning to live with it? People are learning to die with it." .
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"paying into the health and security of protected areas supports the collective health and security of every human being". - Prince Harry, @ChrisCoons & @HMDessalegn writing in @HuffPost .
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Looks like @SecretaryZinke's wife Lola has embraced right-wing conspiracy that the explosive devices/suspicious packages sent out Wednesday were fake.
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it would cool if the next head of the Bureau of Land Management thinks federal lands should exist.
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A coalition of Southwest tribes is calling for POTUS to permanently protect 1.1M acres adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park from uranium mining and other development. “The creator gave us a gift, and that gift is in the form of a grand canyon.".
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here's my pup Remy at doggie daycare today, looking very much like the leader of a wild west dog gang
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Ken Salazar, a ex-Obama official now advising Joe Biden, has deep fossil fuel ties & come under fire for not disclosing lobbying work. He “personifies the soft corruption of what is legal in American politics," watchdog @jeffhauser said. w/ @AlexCKaufman.
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Thousands march in Washington, D.C. heat to demand Trump act on climate change. # via @HuffPostPol.
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.@SenBookerOffice to @ScottPruittOK: I want to know why you never filed a lawsuit on behalf of 100K+ children suffering from asthma in OK.
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this is one of the most irresponsible segments of disinformation i have ever watched.
Fox guest: There's just no health risk. We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency. this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event. particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.
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Tara Benally, of the Navajo Nation, talks about what Bears Ears means to her people: “[It’s] what sustains us . And it will sustain our kids in the future if we protect and preserve Bears Ears as it is right now.”
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