LETTER: McRobbing our future
The Tweeter in Chief has wasted no time demonstrating that his administration has no intentions of holding back, and does not care about science. In the transition between executive agencies, Trump issued a gag order on employees from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and the Dept. of Health and Human Services to temporarily blackout any communications on climate change. Scientists in the governmental sphere, understandably, were very frightened their research would be erased. Generating much uproar, Trump then signed an executive order Tuesday, January 24th to revive the Keystone XL Pipeline project, and approve the Dakota Access Pipeline. On February 2nd the Republican-controlled Congress passed a bill to repeal the Obama administration’s restrictions on waste dumping from coal mines in waterways. Not to mention the general notion of his presidential campaign was patently to give the fossil fuel corporations what they want.