Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Since taking power, Mr. Trump has given the go-ahead to the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines, forbidden scientists from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, from speaking to the media and is insisting they must submit their work to the White House for review before it is published, and removed all reference to climate change from the White House website. His choice of Secretary of State is multimillionaire Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil. He has chosen for the EPA to be led by Scott Pruitt, who deems global warming a hoax. One third of Republican Members of Congress flat-out deny climate change is real. In total, these climate change deniers have received $73 billion in contributions from oil, gas and coal companies over the course of their careers. Does the Minister agree the environmental policies of this Administration and its El Presidente constitute a real and present danger to the future of our planet?

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