The following article by Joe Romm was posted on the ThinkProgress website March 13, 2018:
Mike Pompeo is, of course, a climate science denier and opponent of the Paris climate deal.
President Donald Trump has officially fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and intends to nominate current CIA director Mike Pompeo in his place.
Tillerson was the former CEO of ExxonMobil, which for decades was the number one funder of climate science disinformation until they were surpassed by the Koch brothers starting in 2005. But before Pompeo became CIA Director in 2017, he had for six years been a GOP House member from Kansas — and “the #1 all time recipient of #KOCH Industries $$$,” as the nonprofit research group OpenSecrets.org tweeted at the time: Continue reading “Trump’s Secretary of State pick is ‘the number 1 all time recipient of KOCH Industries $$$’”