EPA shutting down climate adaptation program
Source: The Hill
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.......................It’s part of the EPA’s shift away from climate change programs, which President Trump previewed last month in his first budget request.
Trump proposed eliminating major climate programs as part of a 31 percent cut to the EPA’s budget, though those changes would not be effective until later this year, if Congress approved them.
Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, told reporters last month that Trump does not believe climate is a worthwhile cause for federal spending.
“I think the president was fairly straightforward — we’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that,” he said...................
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/327854-epa-shutting-climate-adaptation-program
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I shouldn't be surprised, of course. But it's so obviously shortsighted, so unbelievably stupid.
The military has been planning for climate change for years - is their program going to be forbidden now, too?
Mulvaney is a menace. (He's also, of course, profoundly wrong.)
Impeachment can't come too soon for me. But the thing is: they're ALL bad. 
Please, please, make this stop.
