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Trump's Housing Pick Could Set Back Climate Policy

HUD leads efforts to cope with global warming. Ben Carson doesn’t believe global warming is real. Uh-oh.

December 6, 2016 at 1:15 PM UTC

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Donald Trump wants a person who has expressly refused to believe in climate change to run a federal agency that plays a big part in U.S. climate policy. It’s not the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Energy; it’s the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Trump’s choice to lead HUD is former presidential hopeful Ben Carson, who says there’s no good evidence that global temperatures are rising -- a view that just 14 percent of Americans share.