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When Dinosaurs Ruled the EPA

If Donald Trump gets into the White House, "global warming" could magically disappear.
Dressed as a Polar Bear climate control activist, Catherine Kilduff celebrates President Barack Obama's announcement that he would reject the Keystone XL Pipeline proposal, on November 6, 2015. Under a Trump administration, the pipeline could be back on the table.
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When the pope wrote in an encyclical last year that the Earth is “among the most abandoned and maltreated of the poor,” Myron Ebell immediately saw that as an opportunity to attack. The Vatican “seems to have forgotten” that “putting the world on an energy-starvation diet will consign billions of people to perpetual energy poverty,” Ebell wrote in a blog post for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Global warming might be bad, he added, but “global warming policies…will almost certainly be catastrophic.”

Ebell, the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a prominent climate-change

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