GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2020
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2020
🌎 December
Approaching 2021
'In a Last 2020 Rush'
Chaotic final weeks in office as defeated president threatens reprisals
Election loss denial accompanied by over 50 failed election challenge lawsuits and flurry of executive actions and orders
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Transition from Trump Proceeds
President-elect Biden to nominate N.M. Representative Deb Haaland, Native American from the Pueblo of Laguna, as next Secretary of the Interior
Watch President-elect Biden Announce 'Climate Team'
North Carolina's Secretary for the Department of Environmental Quality Michael S. Regan is Biden's pick to head EPA. If he wins Senate approval, the 44 year-old will be the first Black man to head the agency.
Re: the President-elect's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. Regan's career includes many years as a longtime air quality specialist at the E.P.A. working under both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He later worked for the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group.
In 2017, Roy Cooper, a Democrat, defeated Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, in North Carolina and tapped Mr. Regan to lead the state environmental agency.
There he replaced Donald R. van der Vaart, a Trump administration ally who has questioned the established science of climate change and fought Obama-era rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and championed a pro-business agenda of deregulation in North Carolina.
Supporters of Mr. Regan said he improved low morale and emphasized the role of science at the department. Several called it an obvious parallel to what he would be expected to do at E.P.A. where Andrew Wheeler, President Trump’s administrator and a former coal lobbyist, has discouraged the agency from working on climate change, and independent auditors have identified a “culture at the top” of political interference in science.
U.S. begins move from environmental policies of the Trump administration
In sweeping turnaround from Trump years of climate science denial and environmental policy 'rollbacks', the incoming Biden administration plans for a new green era
Gina McCarthy, who used her tenure as EPA administrator to build some of the most ambitious climate policies in American history, only to see them evaporate during the Trump administration, will be the top climate adviser to President-elect Joe Biden.
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Why did the U.S., under President Trump, retreat from confronting the #ClimateCrisis?
President Trump's Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney:
Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s budget director:
March 2017 / “Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward—we’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”
Mulvaney: We're Not Spending Money On Climate Change Anymore, "Waste Of Your Money" (Video)
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NOAA chief: I never briefed Trump on climate
Donald Trump has called global warming a "hoax" on multiple occasions ---
The head of the government agency that monitors climate change says that he has never discussed the issue with the current U.S. President, Donald Trump. Acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief Adm. Timothy Gallaudet: "I personally have not briefed the president on climate change."
President Barack Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, estimates that over eight years he briefed the president about climate change more than 50 times.
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | Merchants of Doubt
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
- http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science
2020 / A President's 'false and misleading' statements (many repeated multiple times)
- A Washington Post Fact-Checker @work
- An End of Year Review
- as of October 22, 2020
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