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October 16, 2017

Climate Denier Kathleen Hartnett White Named White House Environmental Adviser
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President Trump has named former Texas environmental regulator and
climate change denier Kathleen Hartnett White as his senior adviser on
environmental policy. White served as chair of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality under then-Governor Rick Perry, who's now Trump's
secretary of energy. White has argued that carbon dioxide is harmless
and should not be regulated, has described solar and wind power as
"unreliable and parasitic," and has called climate change "a dogma that
has little to do with science." In a 2014 blog post titled "Energy and
Freedom," White wrote that coal "dissolved the economic justification
for slavery."


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