Neighboring Minnesota just suffered a sneak attack in the Trump administration's war on nature, public lands, public health and sound science, meaning the world-renown Boundary Waters could become a mining company's toxic waste dump.
That because Trump's Interior Department has quietly green-lit currently-suspended suspended metals' mining at the edge of Minnesota's precious Boundary Waters.
What's next: fracking wells along the National Mall? Drilling rigs in the Reflecting Pool?
Add that outrage, that insanity in the great wooded wetlands of blue-state Minnesota to the relentless attack on Wisconsin wetlands and waters in bordering Wisconsin by Trump apologist Gov. Scott Walker...to Trump's hiring of non-science developer and ex-McDonald's manager Cathy Stepp from Team Walker to run the EPA's Great Lakes region for EPA administrator, climate change denier and fossil fuel booster Scott Pruitt...to the Interior Department's unprecedented transfer of national monument acreage held for the people in Western states to private businesses.
As I said the other day, the GOP is now the Pollution Party:
That because Trump's Interior Department has quietly green-lit currently-suspended suspended metals' mining at the edge of Minnesota's precious Boundary Waters.
What's next: fracking wells along the National Mall? Drilling rigs in the Reflecting Pool?
Add that outrage, that insanity in the great wooded wetlands of blue-state Minnesota to the relentless attack on Wisconsin wetlands and waters in bordering Wisconsin by Trump apologist Gov. Scott Walker...to Trump's hiring of non-science developer and ex-McDonald's manager Cathy Stepp from Team Walker to run the EPA's Great Lakes region for EPA administrator, climate change denier and fossil fuel booster Scott Pruitt...to the Interior Department's unprecedented transfer of national monument acreage held for the people in Western states to private businesses.
As I said the other day, the GOP is now the Pollution Party:
Party rebranding: The GOP of Trump and Walker has remade itself into the Pollution Party.
