Hillary Clinton is facing fresh scrutiny for her environmental track record, following her viral confrontation with a Greenpeace activist and some poorly-received follow-up remarks last week, as the presidential race heads to New York—home to a dedicated anti-fracking movement.
Clinton told Greenpeace campaigner Eva Resnick-Day last week that she was “sick” of Bernie Sanders’ campaign “lying” about her taking contributions from fossil fuel companies, a charge which Sanders and Greenpeace have since separately defended. And environmentalists were even less enthused after Clinton told NBC‘s Meet the Press on Sunday, “I feel sorry sometimes for the young people who, you know, believe this. They don’t do their own research.”
Resnick-Day told Democracy Now! on Monday that Clinton’s comments were “insulting.”
“As a youth movement, we have done our own research and that is why we are so terrified for the future,” she said.
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