Meet Fox's newest favorite climate misinformer, Mandy Gunasekara

[Celerity]

Gunasekara appears on Fox and other right-wing outlets to put a positive spin on Trump’s disastrous climate agenda

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/meet-foxs-newest-favorite-climate-misinformer-mandy-gunasekara

As President Donald Trump’s communication strategy begins to take shape for the 2020 election, his favorite network has been repeatedly booking a former Environmental Protection Agency official to gaslight for the president’s destructive anti-climate and anti-science agenda.

Since February, Mandy Gunasekara has appeared at least 17 times on both Fox News and Fox Business to talk about her past work with the Trump administration, promote his energy agenda, and criticize the Democratic presidential candidates. She has made numerous appearances on other right-wing outlets as well, including The Daily Caller and Bill Mitchell’s radio program. Gunasekara’s history of working with climate change deniers makes her the perfect right-wing pundit for Trump’s so-called “energy dominance” agenda.

From March 2017 through February of this year, Gunasekara was a top climate and air quality adviser at the EPA, where she played a key role in helping the Trump administration undo major environmental regulations. Her organization, Energy45, lists her as “chief architect of the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord” and an orchestrator of the Clean Power Plan repeal. At a 2017 conference, she reportedly told coal company representatives that she was in a position at the EPA to “make a big difference and do things to help out and tear back the problems that stemmed from decisions of the last administration.”

Before joining the EPA, Gunasekara worked on Capitol Hill, where she served as counsel for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), “the grandfather of climate denial,” handing him the snowball during his infamous climate denial speech in 2015.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. LIve tv coverage of a climate change influenced natural disaster destroying her home might

accomplish something and be justice.

But by then I wont be able to take much pleasure in seeing it as we will all be fucked.

[UniteFightBack]

2. Lack of experience in the appointed field is a prerequisite in this SHAMINISTRATION. nt