Health & Lifestyle

Rick Perry at the 2016 Republican National Convention. in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx/AP)
The UK’s biggest energy company, Centrica, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to a Texas-based climate denial think tank strongly linked to Donald Trump’s new energy secretary Rick Perry, Energydesk can reveal.

As of October, 63,000 Texans, 54,247 children, were enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
In the past eight years, Texas lawmakers have tried nearly a dozen times to pass a law requiring drug screenings or testing for applicants for state welfare benefits. Ahead of next year’s legislative session, supporters are hopeful momentum is finally on their side.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, and Gov. Jay Inslee head into a news conference where Ferguson announced a lawsuit against agrochemical giant Monsanto over pollution from PCBs, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In this Nov. 26, 2012 photo, Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family’s home near a fracking operation in rural Parker County Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

A woman attends a protest against genetically-modified foods as she holds a banner which reads: “No GMO!”

Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
AUSTIN, Texas — On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced Rick Perry, the avowed climate change denier and former governor of Texas, is headed to the White House as the president-elect’s pick to head the Department of Energy.

The pipeline leaked an estimated 176,400 barrels of crude into Ash Coulee Creek near Belfield, North Dakota. (Photo: North Dakota Department of Health)

Animal rights activists protest against the start of a new seal hunting season in front of the Canadian embassy Tuesday, March 15, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Seal hunters blame the anti-sealing campaigns of the 1970’s for their current struggles to survive.

Members of the Ramapough Lunaap demonstrate during the Clean Energy March in Philadelphia on July 24, 2016. (Photo: Mark Dixon/flickr/cc)