{"id":1030823,"date":"2024-04-19T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030823"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:28:37","slug":"icymi-the-new-york-times-r-f-k-jr-s-environmental-colleagues-urge-him-to-drop-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-new-york-times-r-f-k-jr-s-environmental-colleagues-urge-him-to-drop-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The New York Times: R.F.K. Jr.\u2019s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cNearly 50 leaders and activists who worked with Mr. Kennedy at an environmental nonprofit group will run ads calling on him to \u2018Honor our planet, drop out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/19\/climate\/rfk-jr-environment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk0.bYAZ.3sSaPchWMpvs&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;ugrp=m&amp;sgrp=c-cb\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: R.F.K. Jr.\u2019s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Lisa Friedman&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dozens of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s former colleagues at the Natural Resources Defense Council are calling on him to withdraw from the race<\/strong>, in full-page advertisements sponsored by the group\u2019s political arm that are expected to appear in newspapers in six swing states on Sunday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Separately, a dozen other national environmental organizations have issued an open letter calling Mr. Kennedy \u201c a <strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>dangerous conspiracy theorist and a science denier\u201d who promotes \u201ctoxic beliefs\u201d<\/strong> on vaccines and on climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cA vote for RFK Jr. is a vote to destroy that progress and put Trump back in the White House,\u201d<\/strong> says the newspaper ad that will run in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Bobby I knew is gone,\u201d said Dan Reicher, a senior energy researcher at Stanford University\u2019s Woods Institute for Environment. Mr. Reicher worked with Mr. Kennedy at N.R.D.C. and said he had a decades-long personal friendship with Mr. Kennedy, including paddling rivers together in the United States and Chile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp;Gina McCarthy was the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama and then became president of N.R.D.C. during the Trump administration, only to return to national service as Mr. Biden\u2019s climate adviser until last year. \u201cIf folks remember him as an environmentalist, he is no more,\u201d she said about Mr. Kennedy. <strong>\u201cHe\u2019s against science, he\u2019s against vaccines, he talks jibber jabber on climate. I don\u2019t know what he stands for.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Hamilton Adams, who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council and hired Mr. Kennedy in the 1980s [&#8230;] \u201cI mentored Bobby as a young environmentalist. <strong>I do not recognize the person he has become. His actions are a betrayal to our environment.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rebuke from Mr. Kennedy\u2019s professional colleagues comes after his brothers and sisters and other members of the Kennedy family endorsed President Biden at a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cNearly 50 leaders and activists who worked with Mr. Kennedy at an environmental nonprofit group will run ads calling on him to \u2018Honor our planet, drop out.\u2019\u201d The New York Times: R.F.K. Jr.\u2019s Environmental Colleagues Urge Him to Drop Presidential Bid By: Lisa Friedman&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: The New York Times: R.F.K. 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