The two GOP senators who could torpedo Trump’s environmental nominee over ethanol

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She couldn’t be a better target. For starters, Kathleen Hartnett White has made repeated statements that make her completely unacceptable to Democrats.

Before President Trump picked her for a top post at the Council for Environmental Quality, White wrote that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.” She declared climate change “a kind of paganism” adhered to only by “secular elites.” And she argued at length that fossil fuels helped “to abolish slavery.”

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