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Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

DeSmogBlog

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Wind project off North Carolina coast gets overwhelming support

Renewable Energy World

Undeniably, wind turbines can and do kill birds, often undetected. Some studies suggest land-based wind farms in the United States could cause over a million bird deaths a year — a figure sure to increase as wind power ramps up. . But unchecked global warming poses an exponentially greater danger.

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Trump Replaces FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee with Commissioner James Danly

GreenTechMedia

The Trump administration has restricted federal agencies from sharing information on the global warming impacts of human-caused carbon emissions. Danly graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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