"...under the Obama administration, the Agriculture Department funneled research money into finding ways of cutting down the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from cows.
The nomination of former Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia as agriculture secretary puts the fate of that and other department research touching on climate change into question. Like President Trump himself, Perdue has in the past bucked the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are warming due to human activity."Employees at the National Parks Service have been told to stop tweeting from official twitter accounts. Grants and contracts from the Environmental Protection Agency have also been frozen.
Via presidential memorandum, Drumpf is also ordering work on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines to continue. The Indigenous Environmental Network released a statement, an excerpt:
"These actions by President Trump are insane and extreme, and nothing short of attacks on our ancestral homelands as Indigenous peoples. The actions by the president today demonstrate that this Administration is more than willing to violate federal law that is meant to protect Indigenous rights, human rights, the environment and the overall safety of communities for the benefit of the fossil fuel industry.
These attacks will not be ignored, our resistance is stronger now than ever before and we are prepared to push back at any reckless decision made by this administration. If Trump does not pull back from implementing these orders, it will only result in more massive mobilization and civil disobedience on a scale never seen of a newly seated President of the United States.”14 Senate Democrats, including Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted in favor of confirming Kansas' Mike Pompeo to be the director of the CIA.
Schumer has supported all of Drumpf's nominees so far, he states that he intends to oppose later ones.
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