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    <font size="+1"><i>March 8, 2017                   Agency changes
        spell danger</i></font><br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html?_r=0</a></font><br>
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            style="font-weight: bold;">EPA Head Stacks Agency With<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Skeptics</span></a></h2>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">In the days since, Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney
      general who built a career out of suing the agency he now leads,
      has moved to stock the top offices of the agency with like-minded
      conservatives - many of them skeptics of<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
        normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">...<br>
        ..Mr. Pruitt has drawn heavily from the staff of his friend and
        fellow Oklahoma Republican, Senator James Inhofe, long known as
        Congress's most prominent skeptic of climate science. A former
        Inhofe chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, will be Mr. Pruitt's chief
        of staff. Another former Inhofe staff member, Byron Brown, will
        serve as Mr. Jackson's deputy. Andrew Wheeler, a fossil fuel
        lobbyist and a former Inhofe chief of staff, is a finalist to be
        Mr. Pruitt's deputy, although he requires confirmation to the
        position by the Senate...<br>
        "He's not coming in thinking E.P.A. is the greatest thing since
        sliced bread. Quite the opposite."...<br>
        Gina McCarthy, who headed the E.P.A. under former President
        Barack Obama, said she too saw Mr. Pruitt as unique. "It's fine
        to have differing opinions on how to meet the mission of the
        agency. Many Republican administrators have had that," she said.
        "But here, for the first time, I see someone who has no
        commitment to the mission of the agency."<br>
        This week, Mr. Trump is expected to sign an executive order
        directing Mr. Pruitt to begin the legal process of unwinding Mr.
        Obama's E.P.A. regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming
        pollution from coal-fired power plants, and Mr. Pruitt is
        expected to announce plans to begin to weaken an Obama-era rule
        mandating higher fuel economy standards...<br>
        A draft White House budget blueprint proposes to slash the
        E.P.A. budget by about 24 percent, or $2 billion from its
        current level of $8.1 billion, and cut employee numbers by about
        20 percent from its current staff of about 15,000...<br>
        Agency employees say morale has already been damaged. After
        working for years to draft climate change regulations under the
        Obama administration, many of those same career scientists and
        lawyers will be ordered to go back and undo them.<br>
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href="http://www.salon.com/2017/03/06/noaa-cuts-could-stymie-research-put-lives-at-risk_partner/">http://www.salon.com/2017/03/06/noaa-cuts-could-stymie-research-put-lives-at-risk_partner/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.salon.com/2017/03/06/noaa-cuts-could-stymie-research-put-lives-at-risk_partner/"
url="http://www.salon.com/2017/03/06/noaa-cuts-could-stymie-research-put-lives-at-risk_partner/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">NOAA cuts could stymie research,
            put lives at risk</span></a></h2>
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      255);">On Friday, the meteorology community was riding a major
      high as stunningly high-definition images came in from the
      nation's newest and much-anticipated earth observation satellite.</div>
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href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-climate-change-denial-mass-protest-global-warming-climatologist-dr-peter-gleick-pacific-a7614466.html"
url="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-climate-change-denial-mass-protest-global-warming-climatologist-dr-peter-gleick-pacific-a7614466.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Leading climatologist urges mass
            protest against Trump administration amid <b
              style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denial</span></a></h2>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">A leading climatologist has warned US democracy is under
      attack from the "uninhibited use of lies, false statements and bad
      science", as he urged people to take part in public demonstrations
      in support of science.</div>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">Egan deftly explains the science of these complex issues,
      including runoff-induced toxic algal blooms and extreme
      fluctuations in the lakes' water levels attributed to<span
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Arctic circle could become
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Venice will vanish underwater
            within a century if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is not stalled,
            climate change study warns</span></a></h2>
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      255);">Venice will be underwater within a century if the
      acceleration in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
        style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b><span
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            style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
              Change</b> Solutions Fund Awards $1 Million to Seven
            Research Projects</span></a></h2>
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      255);">Harvard's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
        style="font-weight: normal;">Climate Change</b><span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Solutions Fund awarded
      about $1 million in grants to scholars from across the University,
      funding seven projects dedicated to understanding and mitigating<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
        normal;">climate change</b>. The fund, started by University
      President Drew G. Faust<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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          text-decoration: underline;">Future climate change will affect
          plants and soil differently<span class="titletext"
            style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote>A new European study has found that soil carbon loss is
      more sensitive to climate change compared to carbon taken up by
      plants. In drier regions, soil carbon loss decreased but in wetter
      regions soil carbon loss increased. This could result in a
      positive feedback to the atmosphere leading to an additional
      increase of atmospheric CO2 levels. <br>
      Scientists analysed data from seven climate change experiments
      across Europe to show how European shrubland plant biomass and
      soil carbon loss is affected by summer drought and year-around
      warming..<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/07/white-house-echoes-exxon-mobil-press-release-praises-oil-giant/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/07/white-house-echoes-exxon-mobil-press-release-praises-oil-giant/</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/07/white-house-echoes-exxon-mobil-press-release-praises-oil-giant/">White
          House echoes Exxon Mobil press release as it praises oil giant
          for <font color="#000099">'</font>new<font color="#000099">'</font>
          job-creating scheme</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote>The White House appeared to lift an entire paragraph
      from <a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/13/meet-rex-tillerson-man-donald-trump-has-appointed-americas-next/">ExxonMobil's
        press release</a> on Monday as it praised the oil giant for
      continuing a multi-billion dollar initiative to expand its
      presence in the Gulf Of Mexico...<br>
      The administration's response came minutes after Exxon announced
      plans to create thousands of jobs by spending $20 billion over 10
      years on plants...<br>
      Exxon's plan started long before Donald Trump entered the White
      House, including investments that began in 2013...<br>
      <b><a
          href="https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/838874217852567552">White
          House press release (left) contains full paragraph copied
          verbatim from Exxon press release (right).</a></b><br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/838874217852567552">https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/838874217852567552</a></font><br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170306005926/en/ExxonMobil-Plans-Investments-20-Billion-Expand-Manufacturing">http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170306005926/en/ExxonMobil-Plans-Investments-20-Billion-Expand-Manufacturing</a></font><br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/president-trump-congratulates-exxon-mobil-job-creating-investment">https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/president-trump-congratulates-exxon-mobil-job-creating-investment</a></font><br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/business/energy-environment/trump-energy-plan-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/business/energy-environment/trump-energy-plan-climate.html</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/business/energy-environment/trump-energy-plan-climate.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share">Trump
          Got Nearly $1 Million in Energy-Efficiency Subsidies in 2012</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote>The Trump White House has wasted no time in targeting
      pro-climate policies, freezing energy-efficiency standards
      finalized during the last days of the Obama administration. Its
      "America First Energy Plan" makes no mention of renewable energy
      or energy efficiency, and it is focused on fossil fuels...<br>
      But in 2012, Donald J. Trump, the businessman, played a different
      tune...<br>
      That year, Mr. Trump finished securing almost $1 million in
      energy-efficiency incentives and low-interest loans from New York
      State to fit a Trump-branded residential tower in Westchester
      County with eco-friendly fixtures, state records show...<br>
      "I strongly believe in clean energy, in conserving energy, all of
      that — more than anybody," Mr. Trump is quoted as saying in a fact
      sheet about the project, at Trump Tower at City Center in White
      Plains. As part of the project, a state-of-the-art power system
      that recycles energy was installed...<br>
      The retrofits that the Trump Organization made to the Trump Tower
      at City Center are especially advanced...<br>
      The building's new power system, called a cogeneration system,
      traps thermal energy from two generators and uses it for the
      heating of air and water, said Larry Gomez, the property's
      resident manager...<br>
      It installed energy-efficient hallway lights that are controlled
      by motion sensors and a cover on its rooftop swimming pool to
      minimize evaporation and to reduce pool-heating costs.<br>
      "It's saved the building a fortune in energy costs," Mr. Gomez
      said — about $300,000 a year.<br>
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          Day in Climate History March 8, 2013 </a> -  from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
     MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses the escalation of carbon dioxide in
    the atmosphere in 2012.<br>
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