New Mexico’s New Governor Appoints Climate Change Denier Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt to Be New Energy Secretary
I was afraid something like this would happen:
Gov. Susana Martinez has tapped a former astronaut and former U.S. senator to be her new secretary of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources.
Schmitt, 75, was on the last manned flight to the moon in 1972. He was the 12th and last — or let’s be optimistic and say “most recent” man to set foot on the moon. (But, as he pointed out in this morning’s press conference, his crewmate Gene Cernan was the last to get back into the Apollo 17 lunar module.)
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