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Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’
President Trump wants to burn the satellites that observe climate pollution from space and shut down the Mauna Loa Observatory, the source of the famous graph tracking the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. While environmental degradation has no shortage of potent visuals like oil spills and razed mountains, climate change is more often represented through statistics: degrees of warming, once-in-a-lifetime storms, projected sea level rise. “In order to see the change that we want to see in the world, where we’ve got a better Clean Air Act, where we’re really thinking about a just transition and a managed decline, we have to build that power on the ground to shift who is representing us in Congress,” said Lauren Pagel, policy director at Earthworks.
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