#1144 Denying and deconstructing with all their might (Environmental Regulations)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 11/07/2017
Today we look at the systematic deconstruction of the environmental regulatory infrastructure at the hands of anti-environment radicals, otherwise known as the "Climate Denying Dream Team"
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump’s ‘Dream Team’ of Climate Change Deniers Threatens the Planet - The Breach - Air Date 8-1-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Long and Low Cloud - The Bulwark
Ch. 4: Act 2: War on the EPA - Frontline - Air Date 10-17-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Passionate Ending - Soft and Furious
Ch. 7: Song 3: Rotisserie Graveyard - Doctor Turtle
Ch. 8: Act 4: Science under attack from Trump administration - Got Science? - Air Date: 8-15-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Turning to You - Landsman Duets
Ch. 11: Song 5: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 12: Act 6: Trump's PC Police Purging The Term 'Climate Change' - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 08-08-17
Voicemails
Ch. 13: Banning guns wouldn't work - Zach from Atlanta, GA
Ch. 14: An unarmed proletariat will always be dominated - Anthony from Salt Lake City, UT
Ch. 15: Dems were unfair to Bernie who wasn't a Democrat - Erica from Massachusetts
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 16: Final comments defending my personal friend, Martin O’Malley
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions and Free Music Archive)
Activism:
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Demand Climate Action in Your Community on NOVEMBER 18th with the Climate Legacy Time Capsule Dedication demonstrations at State Houses and City Halls across the U.S.
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EDUCATE YOURSELF
Robert Redford: Scott Pruitt Is 'Hell-Bent' On Dismantling EPA Rules (Time)
Scott Pruitt Declares War on Air Pollution Science (The New Republic)
Here’s the Expertise Scott Pruitt Is Removing From the EPA’s Advisory Boards (Slate)
EPA chief set to meet privately with chemical industry execs (ABC News)
GAO to review whether EPA violated anti-propaganda law (The Hill)
Another Trump aide seems to be caught up in the Russia probe (Vox)
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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | In working for both Bushes and for Clinton and Obama, I can say no previous |
| 0:05.3 | administration has done with the Trump administration is doing an EPA now. |
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| 0:31.3 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLef podcast with Cupsidae from the |
| 0:36.0 | breach, front line, democracy now, got science and the young Terruks. |
| 0:44.8 | In your book The Hockey Stick in the Climate Wars you introduce us to a rogue |
| 0:48.2 | scallery of climate science deniers. How many of them have popped up in the |
| 0:52.1 | Trump administration? Oh well it's a irritable who's who in the world of |
| 0:56.4 | climate change denial. I sometimes describe it as a climate change denial dream |
| 1:01.7 | team is what Trump has basically put together and of course Trump has |
| 1:07.0 | relatively little to do with it. He's basically outsourced his entire |
| 1:10.9 | administration to polluting interests like the Koch brothers and ex-on-mobile |
| 1:14.4 | and they've made sure to get their folks into key positions like Scott |
| 1:19.1 | Pruitt, the EPA administrator, formerly the trade general of Oklahoma and as a |
| 1:26.2 | trade general of Oklahoma he ghost wrote papers, government documents for |
| 1:31.1 | fossil fuel interests passing them off as official government documents. He's |
| 1:35.8 | an unrecorded denying the reality of climate change as connections with the Koch |
| 1:40.5 | brothers and you've got Ryan Zinke at Department of Interior who is another |
| 1:46.8 | climate change denier. You've got Rex Tillerson former CEO of Ex-on-mobile who |
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