Kathleen Hartnett White, who said coal helped end slavery and CO2 was not a pollutant but 'the gas of life', had struggled with basic science in her Senate hearing.
Democrats and green groups claim a major victory against the Trump administration - the withdrawal of one of Trump's most controversial nominees, due in large part to her views on climate change.
Kathleen Hartnett White has long questioned the established science of climate change, once describing carbon dioxide as “the gas of life on this planet.”
Kathleen Hartnett White appeared in a 2015 YouTube video, extolling the "benefits of CO2." In contrast, leading scientific bodies in the United States and around the world say emissions of CO2 (carbon dioxide) from human sources are harmfully disrupting Earth's climate.
