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Source: CNN
How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon'
By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent
Updated 2209 GMT (0609 HKT) September 13, 2019
Tongass National Forest, Alaska (CNN) In the hottest Alaskan summer on record, amid countless signs of a climate in crisis, a camera phone captured a Republican fundraiser on Kenai Peninsula.
Judging from the laughs and smiles, you'd never know that they are a few dozen miles from the Swan Lake Fire, now burning for over three months. But the mood is giddy because a surprise caller is on speaker -- President Trump.
Holding up the phone in one hand and swatting at late-season hornets with the other, Sen. Dan Sullivan nods and grins as Trump promises to fulfill a Republican wish list that environmentalists have been fighting for generations.
He mentions drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge way up north and building a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in the south. "King Cove Road! Yessir!" says Sullivan as Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker nods with vigor.
Enter Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who has been bonding with Trump during Air Force One refueling stops, often bringing a list of rules and restrictions he wants overturned. With oil prices down, Alaska's budget is deep in the red and Dunleavy is looking for other industry to help.
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GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)... I'd add 'and set on fire' but that would be mean.