Houston Chronicle: Kathleen White A Bad Joke As Shitstain's Science Nominations Restart
As the world starts a new year, the White House, too, is finding itself back at the beginning. About 100 nominees will have to be renominated in 2018 after being blocked in the Senate. Among those dozens of names is Kathleen Hartnett White, former chairwoman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Donald Trump's choice to head up the Council on Environmental Quality.
At a time when Houston is still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, we need federal leaders who take seriously the connection between climate change and extreme weather events. Hartnett White is not up to the task.
There are plenty of other Texans who Trump can pick to fill this important position, preferably ones who won't compel us to cover the collective eyes of Texas out of embarrassment during a confirmation hearing. In November, Hartnett White provided one of the most painful C-SPAN experiences in recent memory as she stumbled over basic issues of science - including one particularly embarrassing exchange with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., about whether water expands when it heats up.
As a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank in Austin, she has promoted coal at the expense of cheaper, cleaner natural gas. She also has bizarrely compared the growth of renewable energy to a rollback of the industrial age - which is news to the wind farms of West Texas and the panhandle. Overall, Hartnett White recklessly dismisses the threat that global climate change poses to our nation, and to humanity, and she should have no place at a federal environmental regulatory agency.
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