Trump’s Environment Pick: Fossil Fuels Ended Slavery, CO2 Is Good for You
tulc(MAGA by pushing as many incompetent candidates as possible?)One of the most embarrassing political flops of 2017 was Donald Trump’s nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a longtime fossil-fuel advocate, to direct the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Her confirmation hearing was a disaster, captured for posterity on YouTube. While she made it out of committee on party lines, the full Senate declined to consider her nomination as part of a bipartisan deal.
Now, she’s back.