One of the most frightening unknowns for the liberal media is how President Donald Trump plans to rein in the rampaging Environmental Protection Agency. The Trump administration recently banned the agency from using its social media accounts until further notice. This apparently spooked CBS Tuesday, because on Evening News they glorified the efforts of environmentalists who are trying desperately to save EPA’s research data out of an irrational fear Trump will lock it up.
“Environmental professors like Bethany Wiggin listened carefully to candidate Trump talk about climate change,” reported CBS’s Jim Axelrod as he played video of Trump calling climate change a hoax, “Which is why she, her colleagues and her students are now racing to back up on other server’s information available on government websites.”
Axelrod said that clamping down on the agency’s use of social media “stoked their fears the administration will limit access to data as it rolls back environmental protections.” This comes from the ridiculous notion that conservatives want to let loss and destroy the planet with pollution.
“I’m really worried the facts might become more difficult to access, so there is a kind of vulnerability of internet materials already,” Wiggin told him, “They become more vulnerable still when controlled by an administration who finds them inconvenient.”
CBS continued to smear Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA, Scott Pruitt, by pointing out his views on climate change. “Just last May, Pruitt wrote, ‘Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind. That debate should be encouraged,’” Axelrod quoted.
The CBS reporter leaned on the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to attack Pruitt. “What we heard at the hearings was a dangerous new form of climate denial,” argued Rachel Cleetus, a member of the organization. “Cleetus says with data showing 2016 as the hottest year on record and sea levels rising at alarming rates that could trigger massive flooding by the end of the century, limiting regulations on energy production could be catastrophic,” Axelrod added.