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Conservative media focused their Earth Day coverage on the crime and trial of environmental activist Ira Einhorn — convicted of murdering his girlfriend — while pushing the unsubstantiated smear that he founded the holiday. Sensationalizing Einhorn’s murder conviction distracted from the holiday’s purpose and the true founder of Earth Day — former Wisconsin governor and United States senator Gaylord Nelson (D), a passionate environmental advocate who was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award for his work. Celebrated on April 22, 1970, the original Earth Day marked the  beginning  of the environmental movement and, as CBS noted,  came  ”at a time when pollution was rampant and regulation was not commonplace.” The popular support Earth Day helped engender led to the establishment of the U.S.

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Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Kimberley Strassel misrepresented the win-loss record of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in court in order to suggest the Obama administration’s environmental rulemaking is frequently illegal. In an April 9 column, Strassel attempted to smear President Obama’s nominee for EPA Administrator, the highly qualified and widely regarded Gina McCarthy, with the accusation that she was responsible for an alleged “embarrassing string of [legal] defeats” suffered by the Obama administration while serving as the senior EPA official in charge of regulating air pollution. From the WSJ : [C]ritics have also started to take note of the embarrassing string of defeats the courts have recently dealt the agency regarding rules it issued in Mr.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Gail Collins has a terrific piece in how the GOP used to be concerned about the environment, but now, not so much. The whole column, “ Cooling on Warming ,” is worth reading, but one thing in particular caught my eye: … earlier this month, a deeply noncontroversial Senate resolution commemorating International Women’s Day had to be taken back and edited because someone objected to a paragraph — which had been in an almost identical version passed in the last Congress — stating that women in developing countries “are disproportionately affected by changes in climate because of their need to secure water, food and fuel for their livelihood.” You may be wondering who the objecting senator was.

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The Wall Street Journal has a long record of hostility toward the regulatory authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but its editorial board recently praised the Supreme Court’s near-unanimous decision upholding EPA action in Decker v.

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In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson defended his website’s claim that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) paid women for sex in the Dominican Republic, but he dodged the question of whether the women interviewed by the Daily Caller might have been paid by political operatives to tell their story, as evidence from ABC News and  The Washington Post  now suggest. Responding to O’Reilly’s inquiry about whether the allegations were fabricated, Carlson stopped short of declaring that the women the Daily Caller interviewed were not paid to tell their story

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Fox’s Bill O’Reilly used his national platform to launch a crusade against openly gay Colorado lawmaker Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D-2) over his opposition to a law that would institute mandatory minimum sentences for sexual predators who target children, repeatedly suggesting that Ferrandino’s opposition to the measure might be linked to his support for gay marriage.

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The first episode of Ted Nugent’s new TV show featured a variety of bizarre antics by the National Rifle Association board member and conservative columnist , including the rocker apparently killing a chicken by slamming its head into the ground. On March 4 The Sportsman Channel aired the first episode of a miniseries starring Nugent

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Fox & Friends misleadingly claimed that federal revenue will be historically high this year to push against calls for additional tax increases.

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The Wall Street Journal  and Fox News are suggesting that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy as head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a sign that he is acting like a “dictator,” using an “end-around” to regulate carbon emissions that drive climate change. But they failed to mention that efforts to curb this greenhouse gas through the EPA are not an invention of the Obama administration — they were given the go-ahead by a George W

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By Morriah Kaplan Following the hottest year on record — one that recorded over 3,000 monthly records for heat, rain, and snow — the public is starting to agree that climate change might, in fact, be real. Though we all have a stake in an issue that will continue to cause extreme weather events, escalate costs and damages, and pose a grave public health threat, one community in particular is taking notice: Latinos. On Wednesday, House Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) hosted Adrianna Quintero from Voces Verdes , and Dan Lashof from the National Resources Defense Council , to discuss the effects of climate change, particularly for the Latino community.

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