For A Few Hours, Badlands National Park Was Bad In Defiance Of Trump

"Badlands National Park tugged on Superman’s cape Tuesday. It spit into the wind. It pulled the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and it messed around with President Trump.

In tweets about climate change that lit up Twitter, the park ignored Jim Croce’s advice in his 1972 hit song and thumbed its nose at the president.

With the Trump administration placing a gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency, shutting down its Twitter feed, forcing employees off their individual accounts and dismantling Web pages with climate-change information, Badlands went rogue.

“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years,” it declared in one of at least four tweets."

Darryl Fears reports for the Washington Post January 24, 2017.

SEE ALSO:

"Badlands National Park Deletes Tweets On Climate Change" (CNN)

"Why Tweets From The Badlands National Park Account Are Being Taken As Resistance" (McClatchy)

"How Climate Change Will Transform the National Parks’ Iconic Animals and Plants" (Smithsonian)