For the first time ever, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will speak at a gathering of activists, politicians and scientists who deny human activity influences climate change. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will open the 16th International Conference on…
EPA says greenhouse gasses don’t harm environment or health
The once-bipartisan effort to reduce the greenhouse gasses that harm human health, cause heat waves and increase the intensity of storms ended when the Environmental Protection Agency, established by President Nixon in 1970, reversed course and dismissed the science of…
Earth Day: Trump’s EPA promotes evangelical myth that environmentalism is a false religion
Today’s Earth Day commemoration is the first since the United States officially adopted the falsehood that conservative evangelicals have embraced for decades: That people concerned about the environment and climate change are motivated by anti-Christian religion. Lee Zeldin, President Donald…
Trump administration accuses Habitat for Humanity of fraud
Habitat for Humanity is among nonprofits the Trump administration claims benefited from “programmatic fraud, waste and abuse” through a climate action fund authorized by Congress. Not only has Trump shut down the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the Environmental Protection Agency…