Al Gore Visits Trump Tower Seeking ‘Areas of Common Ground’

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Breitbart:

Former Vice President Al Gore visited with President-elect Donald Trump in New York City.

The discussion followed an earlier announcement that Gore would meet only with Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who has signaled interest in discussing climate change.

 

Gore described his visit with the Trumps as “lengthy and very productive.”

 

“It was a sincere search for areas of common ground,” he told reporters after leaving Trump Tower. “I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I’m just going to leave it at that.”

 

Since his defeat in the 2000 election, Gore has traveled the globe predicting doom as a result of global warming.

 

He campaigned for Hillary Clinton in Florida during the presidential election, urging Democrats to vote for her despite a history of bad blood with the family.

 

“Her opponent, (Trump) based on the ideas he has presented, would take us toward a climate catastrophe,” Gore said in October.

 

It’s unclear what Trump discussed with Gore, especially since the president-elect is a climate change skeptic.

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Al Gore comes begging for Change?

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Trump Picks EPA Head, Left Loses Mind

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Jon Gabriel, Ed.

December 7, 2016

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Many conservatives were nervous when Donald and Ivanka summoned Al Gore to Trump Tower for a discussion on climate change. Any fears were put to rest Wednesday when his transition team chose Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA.

 

Pruitt gained national attention by suing the EPA over burdensome regulations expected to harm Oklahoma businesses and residents. He challenged the agency’s radical rules on carbon emissions, cross-state air pollution, regional haze, and greenhouse gasses, which relied more on social justice than hard science.

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Pearl Harbor day for the lawless EPA
Paul Mirengoff
December 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s administration will not be an entirely orthodox conservative affair. The Carrier deal so demonstrates.

 

However, Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA demonstrates that, in important respects, the Trump administration will likely be more conservative than that of George H.W. and George W. Bush, and more conservative than a John McCain or Mitt Romney administration probably would have been.

 

William Reilly was the EPA administrator under the first Bush; Christine Todd Whitman under the second. Both were, at best, center-left on environmental issues. Both, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “more or less agreed with the left’s command-and-control model of environmental regulation, and they’d pile more costs on the private economy.”

 

Pruitt is a committed conservative. He can be expected to curb the EPA’s abusive imposition of an extremist green agenda that, lacking a sound statutory basis, has caused the Agency radically to reinterpret the law. Pruitt has been a leader in challenging this regulatory overreach.

 

Pruitt’s efforts have led the mainstream media to brand him an extremist. But, as a friend who has practiced environmental law for decades, says: “Lisa Jackson [who headed the EPA under Obama for four years] was at least as far left than Pruitt is right.” And Pruitt will have the law on his side far more often than Jackson did, I expect.

 

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Will be interesting to see the EPA rank and file try and do everything they can to avoid changing.