WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, it was reported that Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, will lead a “formal initiative” to undermine and call into question the overwhelming scientific consensus that man is driving the climate crisis, funding a program to bring in “alternative” voices who deny the climate crisis on the heels of Pruitt’s purge of scientists who operate in the reality-based world. This comes on the heels of the Trump administration forming a similar committee to undermine voting rights in America.
In response, Sierra Club Climate Policy Director Liz Perera released the following statement:
"Scott Pruitt is a national embarrassment. Pruitt’s obscene proposal to attack the overwhelming settled scientific consensus on climate change is like closing the fire department for a fake audit while a blaze is burning down entire neighborhoods. Our communities and the health of our families are endangered by the climate crisis and air pollution right now, but Scott Pruitt is instead wasting taxpayer dollars on a futile crusade to distort and run away from reality. There were plenty of scientific experts in the EPA who can speak to the scientific facts of the climate crisis, but Pruitt and his polluter cronies are in the process of either firing them or chasing them off. Now, Pruitt’s crusade for alternative facts will yield nothing but wasted money and fossil fuel propaganda.”
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