Sentences with phrase «about global climate protection»
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.
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Leakey campaigned for the protection of the Great Apes and has become increasingly vocal about the threats to biodiversity arising from global climate change.
Between a research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.
To quote Elizabeth Economy from last August, «Whether we're talking about food and product safety, or environmental implementation of anything China might agree to when it comes to global climate change, or trade and investment barriers and intellectual property rights protection, all of them hinge on China having an effective rule of law.
In the opening panel, California's Secretary of Environmental Protection, Linda Adams pledged, on behalf of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, her support and enthusiasm for the Energy and Climate Registry in China and talked about California's environmental initiatives including the Governors» Global Climate Summit hosted by Gov. Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles last November.
Scheduled speakers include some of the nation's best - known global warming skeptics, including Anthony Watts, a television weatherman; Timothy Ball, a former University of Winnipeg professor who has been sued for libel by Michael Mann, a prominent mainstream climate scientist; and Alan Carlin, a former Environmental Protection Agency analyst who claims he was muzzled when he raised questions about the agency's finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide is a threat to human health and the environment.
Selective censorship of media contacts is not the only means by which communication about global warming and climate change has been stifled at the Environmental Protection Agency.