Tag "Koch Industries"
Climate Weekly: You thought Tillerson was bad?
Pompeo has taken more campaign funding from the Koch Industries anti-climate lobby than any other lawmaker and described the Paris Agreement as a “costly burden”.
When Pompeo took his job at the CIA, the New York Times’ Lisa Friedman made this helpful list of things he had said about Obama’s climate stance.
Trump reportedly taps Rep. Pompeo for CIA.
For a sense of whether he will consider climate change a national security threat… pic.twitter.com/FwFRZyKKl0 — Lisa Friedman (@LFFriedman) November 18, 2016 China reshuffle Meanwhile, the Chinese government is undergoing a radical restructure.
China Dialogue reports the intention is to unify previously fragmented environmental governance.
Get in touch: md@climatehomenews.org Reclaiming coal This week we published an investigation, six months in the making, into the arrangements for cleaning up after US coal mines.
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And staff cuts are weakening enforcement of environmental standards.
Oh, and Ireland has announced plans to join the international Powering Past Coal Alliance and close its last coal power plant in 2025.
EV crunch In Norway, electric car supplies cannot keep up with demand.
MIT Should Do Better
MIT Should Do Better.
He has funded the campaign to discredit the overwhelming scientific evidence confirming global warming, backed the effort to replace the ACA with legislation that could deny affordable healthcare to over 25 million Americans, and has infected America’s democratic system with millions of dollars to elect candidates who support his political agenda and business interests.
MIT has taken money from David Koch to finance the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
While this research could be important for humanity, should MIT advertise and glorify the Koch name?
And how ironic it is that MIT has an institute dedicated to cancer research named after the Koch family while the Koch brothers fund efforts to deny affordable healthcare to millions of Americans!
I well remember that MIT, my alma mater, took pride in its courageous faculty such as Noam Chomsky and Franco Modigliani, who spoke out against the Vietnam War, and Norbert Weiner who would not engage in or publish research that could land in irresponsible hands.
It was a democratic MIT that allowed protests on campus in the 1960s.
What has happened to the MIT that I was so proud of?
The United States and the world needs institutions such as MIT to stand up against those who use their financial power to undermine scientific findings and deny basic human rights, especially when humanity faces existential threats from global warming and millions of Americans are in need of affordable healthcare.
MIT should do its part and lead by example.
