ABSTRACT
The White House is the most important source of news for American journalists, and by 2014 it was clear that President Obama was making climate change a priority on the agenda of his second term, over the opposition of Republicans in Congress. In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of people participated in the People's Climate March in New York City, just before world leaders were to debate environmental action at United Nations environmental summit. In America, seven of Republican contenders for the presidency publicly doubt the reality of man-made climate change: Trump, Rubio, Cruz, Carson, Huckabee, Paul, and Santorum, while five: Kasich, Bush, Christie, Fiorina, and Pataki do not deny science but oppose regulation because of its costs to economy. One of Trump's first actions was to appoint climate denier named Myron Ebell to direct the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and then chose as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, attorney known for suing EPA on behalf of fossil fuel interests.
