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A group of Republican lawmakers is urging Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to stand with the men and women who earn livelihoods working in America’s small refineries across the country and to block Democrats’ efforts to lobby the agency to stop issuing Small Refinery Exemptions (SRE’s).

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday night that an explosion at a Philadelphia oil refinery was due to climate change, arguing that the incident underscores the urgency of her Green New Deal.

If President Donald Trump were actually failing, the case against his re-election would be straightforward.

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network say reparations for descendants of slaves is a “sham” that will hurt race relations.

During a radio appearance on Huntsville, AL’s WVNN on Friday, Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) warned that prolonged discussions and focus on House Democrats threatening to impeach President Donald Trump was distracting from Democratic Party efforts to implement far-left policies on the environment and health care.

Former vice president Joe Biden is proposing to restore California’s now-defunct high-speed rail project — just months after Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug, and President Donald Trump pulled the funding.

Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden told supporters in Iowa on Tuesday he supports having a primary debate focused solely on climate change.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called out former Vice President Joe Biden for his stance on the Hyde Amendment, saying if “your pride is being a moderate centrist candidate” then go out” and “own it.” 

Green New Deal advocate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said any considerable climate change program must come with a minimum $10 trillion price tag in order to have a real “shot.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), a leading proponent of the Green New Deal, broke the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge by accepting thousands of dollars from the very oil and gas lobbyists he claimed to be “at war” against.

Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed the Green New Deal on Tuesday as a “crucial framework” for his plan to control climate change.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), one of the primary authors of the Green New Deal, took thousands of dollars from oil and gas lobbyists after publicly pledging to spurn “their dirty money.”

Former Colorado Governor and 2020 presidential candidate John Hickenlooper on Wednesday evening told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that President Donald Trump will win back the White House in 2020 if the party does not distance itself from socialism.

Former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden got a D-minus on Greenpeace’s just released “climate change report card.”

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Sunday that she does not poll-test her policy proposals.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared on Sunday that the Green New Deal will reverse purported “colonial” attitudes associated with growing vegetables in community gardens.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disputed Monday a New York Times report, which suggested that the agency plans to adjust its pollution health risk projections to justify its repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP).

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said at a Green New Deal rally on Monday night that climate change will cause “international havoc and war.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said at a rally on Monday in Washington, DC, that regular people and not big money are powerful today.

President Donald Trump celebrated the economic success of the energy boom taking place under his administration on Tuesday, mocking Democrats for endorsing the “Green New Deal” that would endanger energy jobs.

“I’ve never been middle of the road on the environment … This is a long campaign and everybody should calm down a little bit,” Biden said to reporters in New Hampshire. “Nothing middle of the road.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during a campaign stop on Monday that we need a “green revolution” to tackle climate change, which could serve as an alternative to other 2020 Democrat presidential candidates’ Green New Deal. 

Appearing Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Bill Nye launched into an profanity-laden and hyperbolic rant about climate change, exclaiming “the planet’s on fucking fire!”

Supporters of President Donald Trump crashed New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press conference touting the city’s “Green New Deal” inside the lobby of Trump Tower on Monday morning, holding signs with insults directed at the far-left Democrat.

After her recent move to Washington D.C., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has discovered what a garbage disposal is, describing it as “terrifying” in a series of photos and videos she shared to her Instagram account.

Former U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), who is running for president in 2020, criticized his Democratic rivals for embracing left-wing policies like “Medicare for All” and the “Green New Deal” Tuesday, calling them “unrealistic.”

A poll has found that majority of Britons have said that they will not give up meat, driving, or flying to stop alleged ‘climate change,’ after MPs backed a motion to declare an “environment and climate emergency.”

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel imports are helping to clean up the environment in Pennsylvania while boosting investments in American manufacturing workers.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation Tuesday that would curb federal agencies’ “billion-dollar” binge spending at the end of the year.

A poll of likely voters in New Hampshire shows Former Vice President Joe Biden is the best pick for beating President Donald Trump in 2020.

MoveOn’s Political Action in Michigan’s 13th congressional district is endorsing Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for re-election in 2020 with 88 percent of its 7,000 members in favor of the move.

New York City plans to reduce the amount of red meat served in municipally-run facilities by half to combat climate change as part of the city’s recently-approved “Green New Deal.”

Monday in New Hampshire at a CNN town hall, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) once again insisted that as a 2020 presidential candidate she possesses the ability to win over America’s Heartland, which largely supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

There was record youth voter turnout in the 2018 midterms, with two-thirds of young voters picking a Democrat, according to the poll.

Appearing Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city’s own Green New Deal will “ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers,” warning property owners will face massive fines unless buildings are retrofitted to reduce emissions. 

Foreign Policy magazine is claiming that the United States owes the world $1 trillion dollars from damage it has caused with carbon emissions.