Like pesticides? Trump’s got the right man for you.
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To lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump settled on notorious climate change denier Myron Ebell. The decision rattled climate activists—see Julia Lurie’s interview with Bill McKibben and David Roberts and Brad Plumer on Vox. But it isn’t just greenhouse gas emissions that are likely to get a free ride under an Ebell-influenced EPA. Farm chemicals, too, would likely flow unabated if Ebell’s agenda comes to dominate Trump’s EPA.
Ebell directs the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The group runs a website, SafeChemicalPolicy.org, that exists to downplay the health and ecological impacts of chemicals.
If the incoming EPA takes its cues from Ebell’s group, the agency’s coming decisions on some widely used farm chemicals won’t be hard to […]
We didn’t see any positive contributions on pesticides or GMO’s during the Obama years. He didn’t veto the GMO “labeling” bill that basically gave GMO’s a free pass. Did he ever give a speech about Roundup polluting everything in sight, or water polluted by pharmaceuticals?
Did Obama do anything to improve our environment standards in US in the last 8 years? Will any headway be made in the next 4 years or will this nation slip backwards?
Yes, Obama did a number of things. If you don’t know what they are search the SR archives.