Erik DuMont
@EnvironmentErik
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Dad, runner, news junkie, and beer enthusiast. Tweets represent my views only.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2018
Mike Pence is for conversion therapy. Mike Pence said smoking didn’t cause cancer. Mike Pence doesn’t believe climate science. Mike Pence questioned whether or not condoms worked. So, 😬
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“The Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is proven critical calving & post-calving habitat for the Porcupine Caribou. It is proven by thousands of years of traditional knowledge & decades of satellite collar information...”Councilor Darius Elias, Vuntut Gwitchin
So this is DOI's Senior Advisor for Alaskan Affairs in an email to FWS asserting that caribou do NOT calve in the 1002 area of the coastal plain. This is simply false. He also happens to be co-chair of the Int'l Porcupine Caribou Board. Oh well.
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.@CongressmanJVD isn't just the sharpest dressed member of Congress, he's also leading the efforts in the House to permanently fund the all-important Land & Water Conservation Fund. #FundLWCF
So glad my colleague, @SophiaHullEnvNJ was able to attend an event with @CongressmanJVD at #CapeMay to clean the #beach and talk about his awesome bill to #FundLWCF.
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A big thank you to @CongressmanJVD for celebrating National Public Lands Day with our partners at Cape May NWR in New Jersey! It was great to see an #LWCF champion touring a beautiful place that was protected using LWCF dollars! #FundLWCF
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Bird Nerds unite for #ArcticBirdFest! Birds fly to the Arctic Refuge from all 50 states and six continents (sorry Africa!). Check out this seriously cool virtual birding expedition into the Arctic Refuge.
Join our friends from @AudubonAlaska1, @ManometCenter and @USFWS for the 2019 Arctic Refuge Virtual BirdFest. See (and hear!) some of the millions of birds that migrate to the Arctic Refuge annually. #ArcticBirdFest #ProtectTheArctic
https://t.co/H50Vy9zVJJ"
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Well that was fun. 2nd Annual Arctic Refuge virtual birdfest has a quiz to see what kind of Arctic bird are you! :) I got: Driven and domestic, I am the Cackling Goose! Go here and click the quiz yourself. https://t.co/FEJPOAPO5p
arcticbirdfest.com
Join Audubon Alaska and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a virtual trip to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The administration's rush to drill in the Arctic Refuge endangers polar bears, caribou, millions of migratory birds, and the health and security of the Gwich'in people. #ProtectTheArctic
The Trump administration's Bureau of Land Management says their plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could lead to extinctions. One more reason we shouldn't be drilling for oil there. #ProtectTheArctic
https://t.co/DcIHZAXkud
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Protecting our cherished public lands should always be a bipartisan issue - thanks @RepStefanik for keeping the conservation in conservative!
We need to protect places that are still intact, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Last week, the House did just that. Let’s thank @RepStefanik and others who voted for the "Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act." #ProtectTheArctic
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Yeah... I saw this Trump tweet pulling the rug out from whatever paltry rationale drilling proponents had to begin with.
If we're energy independent, why the rush to pollute the Arctic Refuge with dirty drilling? #ProtectTheArctic #StandWithTheGwichin
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Subhankar Bannerjee links the ongoing extinction crisis on our planet with the potential destruction in the Arctic Refuge from the administration's drilling plans. The administration even admits in those plans they may lead to additional extinctions.
Photographer and Arctic Refuge activist Subhankar Bannerjee speaks with @AmyGoodman_DN on @DemocracyNow about the Trump administration's rush to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. https://t.co/sNve1ddB4i
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👉It’s now cheaper to build new renewables than it is to build natural gas plants
fastcompany.com
By the middle of the 2030s, clean energy could drop in cost so much that it will be cheaper to build and run new renewables than to keep existing gas plants running.
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Thanks @SpeakerPelosi for making today’s historic vote possible! #protectTheArctic
Thank you @SpeakerPelosi for your leadership in the passage of H.R. 1146 Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act. As the Arctic warms, we need to protect the places that are still intact, like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. #ProtectTheArctic
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That's right, we brought out both the bears today for the SUCCESSFUL 225-193 vote to restore protection to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!
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Today’s the day! The House will vote to #ProtectTheArctic and Arctic wildlife from destructive oil drilling.
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President Trump and his crony cabinet are waging a war on science with sharpies — and threatening reprisals against scientists for doing their jobs. In a place as special as the #Arctic Coastal Plain, this is a recipe for disaster. #ProtecttheArctic
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Detonating a carbon bomb by drilling the Arctic Refuge while simultaneously chopping down our nation’s largest old growth forest will lock the U.S.— and the world– into future carbon pollution that would be devastating to our planet. See my WaPo OpEd:
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BREAKING: House draws a line in the sand and votes to block drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Eastern Gulf of Mexico with bipartisan majorities. Read the statement by our ocean advocate @KelseyLamp here:
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WE DID IT! The House just passed #HR1941, my bipartisan bill to ban offshore drilling. This is for all the folks in the Lowcountry who made their voices heard again and again - and forced Washington to listen! I’m so proud to carry your message to DC! https://t.co/3xcmeaQ3mc
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