Trump's EPA Chief Keynotes Anti-Science Climate Denial Conference
Amidst record-breaking heat in the United States, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator under President Donald Trump, delivered the keynote address at a conference hosted by the Heartland Institute. The event, co-sponsored by the CO2 Coalition, gathered climate change deniers and skeptics to promote misinformation and celebrate their growing influence on federal policy. Attendees were distributed materials claiming carbon dioxide is beneficial and that there is no climate crisis. Zeldin framed the gathering as a vindication against what he described as an elite cabal promoting doom-and-gloom predictions. While scientific consensus confirms human-caused global warming, speakers at the conference argued that renewable energy is harmful and that climate science is driven by leftist political agendas. Experts note that organizations like the Heartland Institute, which portray themselves as underdogs, are actually funded by major fossil fuel companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil. The conference highlighted the tension between established scientific facts and the current administration's alignment with climate denialist groups.
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Trump's EPA Chief Keynotes Anti-Science Climate Denial Conference
Amidst record-breaking heat in the United States, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator under President Donald Trump, delivered the keynote address at a conference hosted by the Heartland Institute. The event, co-sponsored by the CO2 Coalition, gathered climate change deniers and skeptics to promote misinformation and celebrate their growing influence on federal policy. Attendees were distributed materials claiming carbon dioxide is beneficial and that there is no climate crisis. Zeldin framed the gathering as a vindication against what he described as an elite cabal promoting doom-and-gloom predictions. While scientific consensus confirms human-caused global warming, speakers at the conference argued that renewable energy is harmful and that climate science is driven by leftist political agendas. Experts note that organizations like the Heartland Institute, which portray themselves as underdogs, are actually funded by major fossil fuel companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil. The conference highlighted the tension between established scientific facts and the current administration's alignment with climate denialist groups.
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