Rick Perry
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The fact is: Facts don’t matter to climate deniers
Yep, Rick Perry is wrong. But meteorologists are wasting their time trying to educate him.
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The end of federal environmental justice as we know it
As the Trump team takes office, the movement will have to adapt.
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Rick Perry’s Dakota Access Pipeline business entanglements
The Energy Department pick is on the board of the company behind the pipeline.
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Rick Perry is on the payroll of a controversial oil pipeline company in Texas
Most presidential candidates step down from corporate boards to avoid conflicts of interest. Not the ex-Texas governor.
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The GOP’s king corn problem
Republicans contort themselves in order to champion big-government ethanol support.
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Rick Perry advocates solution to climate problem he doesn’t believe in
Of all the GOP candidates, Rick Perry has been perhaps the most fervently dismissive of the reality of human-caused climate change. So why does his energy plan include a provision for "clean coal" technology, which is used to capture carbon dioxide and pump it underground?
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Rick Perry right about something
When a town hall attendee asked Rick Perry about groundwater pollution from hydrofracking, he sneered at the idea, saying that it would have had widespread press coverage if it were true: Perry: I am truly offended that the American public would be hoodwinked by stories that do not scientifically hold up. If that was true, […]
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Critical List: Durban is over; Rick Perry is an idiot
The Durban round of COP talks ended over the weekend with a "platform" that outlines how work towards a new climate treaty will progress over the next few years. But that's really not good enough. Rick Perry thinks the company called Solyndra is a country called Solynda. That's in Africa, right? It's easier to find […]
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Watch Rick Perry forget that the Department of Energy even exists
Energy. The word you're looking for is energy. Not a big priority, maybe?