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CBS Host Confronts Steve Scalise: Your Solution to Climate Change Is to Drill More?

OK THEN

‘So to save your constituents from climate change, you’re drilling more in the Gulf of Mexico?’

Justin Baragona
Justin Baragona 

Senior Media Reporter

During a climate change discussion on CBS This Morning on Friday, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) responded to questions about man-made climate change contributing to erosion of land in his home state by claiming Louisiana is using Gulf of Mexico oil drilling revenues to rebuild land, prompting host Tony Dokoupil to...

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Justin Baragona

Justin Baragona

Senior Media Reporter

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