AD“It’s an order that does so much for the state of Florida,” Trump told a cheering crowd on Tuesday. The move represents a blow to Pebble Mine, which was vetoed under President Barack Obama but has been revived under the Trump administration. Trump does not even have anywhere close to the strongest environmental record among modern Republican presidents. “But the Trump administration actually sought to eliminate that specific funding earlier in the president's tenure,” Dino Grandoni notes in the Energy 202. Six counties with large shares of blue-collar workers shifted Republican, including Luzerne County, where Mr. Milunic lives.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 16:40 UTC