The Staggering Nihilism of the GOP’s Climate Policy Was on Display This Week
The Republican Party platform unveiled this week says -- in all caps, of course -- that “We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL.”
Three months before this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC) opened in Milwaukee, Donald Trump met with oil executives to shake them down for a huge influx of cash. In exchange for them giving his campaign $1 billion, he said, he would dismantle Joe Biden’s green agenda and roll back an array of environmental regulations. Trump’s rather shameless request — and his promise — was in…