The meeting at Trump Tower took place the same day that climate change sceptic Scott Pruitt was appointed as Trump's head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Environmental protection enthusiast Leonardo Dicaprio and the head of his foundation had a meeting with president-elect Donald Trump this week to discuss how ‘green jobs' can help boost the American economy.
Terry Tamminen, the CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF), confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday (December 7th) that he and the Hollywood star had given a presentation at Trump Tower earlier that day. The pair met with Trump, his daughter Ivanka, and members of his team and focussed on a “framework” on how renewable energy could create millions of jobs.
Leonardo DiCaprio met with Donald Trump to give presentation on green jobs
“Today, we presented the president-elect and his advisors with a framework – which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism – that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centred on investments in sustainable infrastructure,” Tamminen said.
“Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation.”
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The meeting happened just a matter of hours after Trump appointed a prominent climate change sceptic, Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, to the post of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
To say that the appointment has proved controversial would be an understatement. Pruitt is part of a legal action waged by 28 U.S. states against the EPA to stop Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, launched to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations.
He has also cast doubt on the pretty overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is causing the planet to warm. “That debate is far from settled,” Pruitt said in May. “Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.”
“Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the US Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the environmental organisation the Sierra Club, is quoted as saying. “He is a climate science denier who, as attorney general for the state of Oklahoma, regularly conspired with the fossil fuel industry to attack EPA regulations. Nothing less than our children’s health is at stake.”
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