Investigating Power
After eight years of being banished and sometimes vilified by the Obama administration, the fossil fuel industry is enjoying a remarkable resurgence as its executives and lobbyists shape President-elect Donald Trump’s policy agenda and staff his administration.
Americans are skeptical Trump will extricate himself from corporate empire, which some say is already threatening U.S. stability and interests.
President-elect says he’s open-minded, but his nominees don’t seem to be.
Let’s be clear: Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, has never been a teacher or a principal or a superintendent. She’s never run a school or a school district, and if she has any experience with higher education other than having been a student, there’s no record of it.
Climate, Education, Environment, Trump
On today’s show we have Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy back on the show to discuss Donald Trump’s frightening choice to head the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, as well as a disturbing Trump climate change memo.
President-elect Donald Trump is set to gut U.S. environmental regulations, open up federal lands for fossil fuel extraction, and quit the Paris climate agreement.
A leaked memo on the Trump Administration’s Energy Plan focuses more on expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and stopping federal regulation of carbon, but also says that all energy subsidies should eventually be eliminated.
The Silicon Valley venture capitalist has backed companies that could benefit at least indirectly from his role.
Okay, you know that Betsy DeVos, Trump’s choice for Secretary of Education, is a billionaire. You know that she wants vouchers. You know that her organization, the American Federation for Children, cheers every victory for school choice as a defeat for public schools. But there is more to know about this activist and funder of the religious right.
“Fake news” had been in the news so much since the election last month that you’d think it was a new problem. Not true. Peddling that stuff has been part of government and corporate business models for years.