<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Vimeo Video on the website below indeed reveals the following statement at about 18:55, as excerpted from this article:</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="6">"Six years ago at a forum convened by </font><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity"><font size="6"><font color="#000080">Americans for Prosperity (<span class="gmail-caps">AFP</span></font><font color="#000080">)</font></font></a><font size="6">, funded by the </font><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations"><font color="#000080" size="6">Koch Family Foundations</font></a><font size="6">, Harnett-White actually </font><a href="https://vimeo.com/31646143" target="_blank"><font color="#000080" size="6">even went so far to say</font></a><font size="6"> that there “there is no environmental crisis—in fact, there’s almost no major environmental problems.” (starting at about 18:55)."</font></div><div><font size="4">-------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/13/trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-ceq?utm_source=dsb%20newsletter">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/13/trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-ceq?utm_source=dsb%20newsletter</a></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Trump Names Climate Denier Kathleen Hartnett-White to Head White House Environmental Council</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">By <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/user/steve-horn"><font color="#000080">Steve Horn</font></a> • Friday, October 13, 2017 <font size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><p>President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump"><font color="#000080">Donald Trump</font></a>, as first reported by EnergyWire's <a href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Hannah_Northey" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Hannah Northey‏</font></a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/HMNorthey/status/918650679538876416" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Twitter</font></a> and as stated in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/12/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">White House press release</font></a>, has named <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white"><font color="#000080">Kathleen Hartnett-White</font></a> to chair the Council on Environmental Quality (<span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span>). </p><p>Hartnett-White, as previously reported by DeSmog, is a prominent climate change denier and former Chairman and Commissioner of the Texas Council on Environmental Quality (<span class="gmail-caps">TCEQ</span>) under then-Texas Governor <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rick-perry"><font color="#000080">Rick Perry</font></a>. Perry now heads up the <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> Department of Energy and is <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-skeptic-job-237172" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">reported to have advocated</font></a> for her to run <span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span>. She is also an outspoken advocate of <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future"><font color="#000080">hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)</font></a> and of <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/247695-have-faith-in-the-shale-gale" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">exporting</font></a> oil and gas to the global market.</p><p>Long seen as the <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-skeptic-job-237172" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">presumptive front-runner</font></a> to take the <span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span> role, Hartnett-White also worked on President Trump's presidential campaign on his Economic Advisory Team. And her name was once <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/29/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-denier-epa"><font color="#000080">floated to head up</font></a> the <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> Environmental Protection Agency (<span class="gmail-caps">EPA</span>), as well, currently led by <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt"><font color="#000080">Scott Pruitt</font></a>.</p> <p>The head of the <span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span> coordinates interagency science, climate, and environmental policy, and is tasked to oversee things like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">National Environmental Policy Act (<span class="gmail-caps">NEPA</span></font><font color="#000080">)</font></a> review process and agencies' compliance with that law. The <span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span> as an entity itself was actually a creation of <span class="gmail-caps">NEPA</span>, mandated by that law.</p><p>Though <span class="gmail-caps">CEQ</span> oversees the <span class="gmail-caps">NEPA</span> process, it remains unclear how seriously Hartnett-White will take the <span class="gmail-caps">NEPA</span> review process, for decades seen as a bedrock of <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> environmental regulation since <span class="gmail-caps">NEPA</span> became law in 1970.</p><p>Hartnett-White has long positioned herself as an opponent of environmental and climate actions taken by regulatory agencies. She currently works as a fellow-in-residence at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation"><font color="#000080">Texas Public Policy Foundation</font></a>, which <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-billionaires-that-fund-the-texas-public-policy-foundation/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">receives funding</font></a> from ExxonMobil, the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute"><font color="#000080">Heartland Institute</font></a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc"><font color="#000080">Koch Industries</font></a> and others. White also helped head up the Texas Public Policy Foundation's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FuelingFreedomProject/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Fueling Freedom Project</font></a>, which had among its <a href="https://archive.is/g8bgS" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">stated goals</font></a> to “explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels” and “end the regulation of <span class="gmail-caps">CO2</span> as a pollutant.”</p><p>In September 2016 during campaign season, Politico's Morning Energy <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-energy/2016/09/takeaways-from-the-clean-power-plans-day-in-court-216558" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">reported</font></a> that Hartnett-White was “among a small group of people who have Donald Trump’s ear on energy policy.” Hartnett-White and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/stephen-moore"><font color="#000080">Stephen Moore</font></a>, who also worked on Trump's campaign, co-authored a 2016 book titled, <em>Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy</em>. The book promoted fracking and said the <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> shale gas bounty could be <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/06/08/america-sitting-on-50-trillion-in-oil-and-gas.html" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">worth $50 trillion</font></a>, a statement which has <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/u-s-not-50-trillion-fossil-fuel-resources/" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">been called false</font></a> by an energy analyst who crunched the numbers.</p><p>The book also claimed that all of the net jobs gained in the <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> between 2007-2012 can be linked to the fracking revolution, which they wrote has spawned “millions of new jobs in the energy sector.”</p><p>But according to the <span class="gmail-caps">U.S.</span> Bureau of Labor Statistics, during that time period, the <a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021100001?data_tool=XGtable" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">number of oil and gas industry workers</font></a> ranged from a low of about 140,700 jobs in 2007 to a high of 194,700 in 2012.</p></font></div><div><font size="4"><span><h3>Hartnett-White Is a Climate Science Denier</h3><p>Not only a fracking promoter, Hartnett-White has also called carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a major benefit for society. </p><p><span class="gmail-dquo">“</span>No matter how many times, the President [Obama], <span class="gmail-caps">EPA</span> and the media rant about 'dirty carbon pollution,' there is no pollution about carbon itself! As a dictionary will tell you, carbon is the chemical basis of all life,” <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/kathleenhartnettwhite/2015/09/29/clearing-the-air-on-climate-change-n2058517" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">White wrote in September 2015</font></a>. </p><p><span class="gmail-dquo">“</span>Our flesh, blood and bones are built of carbon. Carbon dioxide (<span class="gmail-caps">CO2</span>) is the gas of life on this planet, an essential nutrient for plant growth on which human life depends. How craftily our government has masked these fundamental realities and the environmental benefits of fossil fuels!”</p><p>Likewise, Hartnett-White gave a talk for the Texas Public Policy Foundation in November 2015 on a panel titled, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLLF4kBvOHH68jcsuPmA49KQgMQ8Tyx1wb&time_continue=119&v=i9Is3zisv18" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">Not a Pollutant: <span class="gmail-caps">CO2</span></font><font color="#000080"> is the Gas of Life</font></a>.”</p><p>In a September 2016 interview with Politico, Hartnett-White advocated for the creation of a ”<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-skeptic-job-237172" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">blue ribbon commission</font></a>” on climate change, similar to the “<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060056858" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">red team-blue team</font></a>” one being floated by Pruitt's <span class="gmail-caps">EPA</span>. The commission, Hartnett-White told Politico, would create an “alternative scientific methodology” to the one used by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (<span class="gmail-caps">IPCC</span>). She has also stated on the record that the <span class="gmail-caps">UN</span> has “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgebG5uXgk" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">revealed themselves</font></a>” as advocating for communism.</p><p>Six years ago at a forum convened by <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity"><font color="#000080">Americans for Prosperity (<span class="gmail-caps">AFP</span></font><font color="#000080">)</font></a>, funded by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations"><font color="#000080">Koch Family Foundations</font></a>, Harnett-White actually <a href="https://vimeo.com/31646143" target="_blank"><font color="#000080">even went so far to say</font></a> that there “there is no environmental crisis—in fact, there’s almost no major environmental problems.” (starting at about 18:55).</p><p>---------------------------------------</p><p>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></p></span><p></p></font><p></p></div></div>