Kathleen Hartnett White, who was nominated to lead the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, tried and failed to defend her denial of climate change during a Senate confirmation hearing for the position on Wednesday.

“Just do it,” President Trump reportedly told a room full of Native American tribal leaders, whom he hosted at the White House in June. By “just do it,” Trump wasn’t referring to the Nike slogan. He meant: drill and extract as much from Native American land as possible without regard for federal regulations.

“Pump oil, save lives,” seems like a slogan better fit for a gas station in New Jersey than a genuinely held idea propagated by the U.S. Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, but the National Petroleum Council (NPC) doesn’t appear to be in the business of making bumperstickers. While speaking at a NPC conference in DC on…