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Related: About this forumSenator Ed Markey: 'GOP, In A Modern Era, Stands For 'Gas And Oil Party'
During the confirmation hearing for Scott Pruitt, President-elect Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Senator Ed Markey asked Pruitt point-blank if he believed climate change was a hoax.
"Donald Trump has called global warming a hoax caused by the Chinese," Markey said. "Do you agree that global warming is a hoax?"
Pruitt replied, "I do not."
"So Donald Trump is wrong?" Markey asked.
"I do not believe climate change is a hoax," Pruitt responded.
Read more: http://news.wgbh.org/2017/01/20/local-news/senator-ed-markey-gop-modern-era-stands-gas-and-oil-party
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Senator Ed Markey: 'GOP, In A Modern Era, Stands For 'Gas And Oil Party' (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Feb 2017
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Liberty Belle
(9,610 posts)1. Let's all adopt this framing.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)4. That's why the Saudis aren't on the terrorists list.
They could get pissed and drive down oil prices again.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)2. Markey is just plain wrong..
its
Greed
Overtly Racist
Probably Facist
that too.