A report released Monday by a former fossil fuel executive and supported by the former head of the Australian military said there isa “high likelihood”…
A report released Monday by a former fossil fuel executive and supported by the former head of the Australian military said there isa “high likelihood” human civilization would come “to an end by 2050” because of climate catastrophe. But on the same day, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Andrew Wheeler, admonished the media for focusing too much on climate change.
“We need to fix this perception, and we need the help of the press,” said Wheeler at the National Press Club. “The public needs to know how far we’ve come, as a nation, protecting the environment.”
Wheeler then explained that since the agency’s establishment in the 1970s, pollution and carbon emissions have fallen significantly. He read off statistics about there being less carbon emissions, a remediation of waterways and less air pollution than before.
“The media does a disservice to the American public, and sound policymaking, by not informing the public of the progress this nation has made,” he said.
Wheeler, whowas previously a lobbyist for large energy companies, has used this overall decrease in pollution to justify his recent rollbacks of environmental policy.
