Donald Trump is courting controversy with his latest pick for a high level position on the environment.
The US President announced vocal climate change sceptic Kathleen Hartnett White was his chosen person to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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Ms Hartnett White is not inexperienced in environmental advocacy, having previously chaired the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. She was a candidate for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before the position was given to another climate sceptic, Scott Pruitt.
Ms Hartnett White does not believe in man-made climate change, instead arguing that the sun may be the cause of the earth's temperature rising.
In an interview with the Washington Post in November 2016 she said: "Carbon dioxide has none of the characteristics of a pollutant that could harm human health."
In an opinion piece published last year she suggested CO2 "may not be the cause of warming but instead a symptom of it".
Carbon dioxide is widely believed to be a contributor to climate change causing the heat to become trapped in the atmosphere.
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