Environmentalists Blast RFK Jr., Honor Earth Day By Asking Him To Drop Out

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to hold himself up as an environmentalist and, as a former senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, he once really was one. But those who know him say he has changed into somebody they no longer recognize. For example, Gina McCarthy, Obama’s EPA administrator, NRDC president during the Trump administration and now President Biden’s climate adviser, was quoted by The New York Times as saying, “If folks remember him as an environmentalist, he is no more … He’s against science, he’s against vaccines, he talks jibber jabber on climate. I don’t know what he stands for.”

McCarthy and dozens of her fellow NRDC alums have gotten together to run ads in six swing state newspapers calling for RFK Jr. to drop out, The Times reported.

There's also an open letter from 12 environmental groups, such as Sierra Club and Sunrise Movement. They didn’t mince words when they ripped Kennedy as “a dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier whose agenda would be a disaster for our communities and the planet.” The letter also said, “In the fact-free world that both he and Trump live in, objective reality simply does not exist. Their policy platforms are instead driven by what will benefit Big Oil and the greedy corporations that fund them.”

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