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I-M-P-E-A-C-H: UC Berkeley professor who broke from Trump administration over Charlottesville speaks
I-M-P-E-A-C-H: UC Berkeley professor who broke from Trump administration over Charlottesville speaks outFor the last two decades, UC Berkeley professor Daniel Kammen has served as a climate change advisor under Republican and Democratic presidents.
On more than one occasion, his views were at odds with the Clinton, George W. Bush or Obama administrations, but he believed his mission to mitigate the effects of climate change was more important than any political divide.
But President Trump’s widely criticized remarks about racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Va., proved to be a breaking point, much as they did for a number of other White House advisors.
In an open letter to the president, Kammen resigned as science envoy to the State Department on Wednesday morning. The first letter of each of the seven paragraphs spelled out the word “I-M-P-E-A-C-H,” a clear homage to members of the President’s Arts Council who resigned last week in a letter with the word “R-E-S-I-S-T” spelled out in a similar manner.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dan-kammen-resignation-20170823-story.html
