The Congressman Who’s Trying to Make the Environment Worse, Again

It takes so much energy to keep up with the untruths, half-truths, and crackpot tweets coming out of the White House these days that it can be hard to find the time to monitor the falsehoods emanating from Capitol Hill. But it’s worth checking in on Congress because, it turns out, many of its most powerful members are no less delusional than President Trump. A case in point is Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Smith is the kind of Science Committee chairman who openly displays his contempt for science. He recently advised Americans to get their news “directly from the President. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.” (According to the Texas Tribune, Smith was “the first member of Congress to donate to Trump in last year’s presidential campaign.”)

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