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October 15, 2018

Senate Confirms Former BP Oil Defender as Top Environmental Lawyer
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The Senate has confirmed the lawyer who defended oil giant BP from
lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the Trump
administration's top environmental lawyer. Jeffrey Bossert Clark was
approved on a 52-45 vote Thursday after Democrats Joe Manchin and Claire
Mc Caskill sided with Republicans to confirm him as assistant attorney
general for environment and natural resources. Clark has repeatedly
challenged the science of climate change, calling it "contestable."


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