Still, the desire to perpetuate ignorance on matters medical is nothing compared with the desire to kill climate research, where Mr. Cantor's colleagues — particularly, as it happens, in his home state of Virginia — have engaged in furious witch hunts against scientists who find evidence they don't like.
Companies spent more than half a billion dollars to kill climate legislation and support offshore drilling in 2010, according to author and climate change expert Joe Romm.
It was the Democratic-led Senate that killed climate legislation in 2010, after the House had passed a major cap-and-trade bill the previous year.
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"For someone who gave speeches all over America calling for climate action, Jim Rogers was doing a great job of killing the climate bill," Mr. Pooley writes.
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In the same year, the U.S. Senate killed a climate bill over the summer, and then more climate deniers got elected in the midterm election.
We estimate that 250,000 children could be killed by climate change next year," said Benedict Dempsey, Save the Children's humanitarian policy officer.
The oil industry spent more than $10m lobbying state lawmakers in a massive push to kill California climate change legislation last year, new disclosures have revealed.
If implemented at the scale apparently intended, this will kill the Climate Change Act by steadily undermining our capacity to stick to its legally binding carbon pathway.
