White House removes petition for climate skeptic’s ouster from Trump transition

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November 16, 2016 at 12:57 p.m. EST

:Protesters critical of the recent election of Donald Trump as president, including one holding a sign brandishing Trump climate policy adviser and global warming skeptic Myron Ebell as a criminal, gather for a demonstration near the Brandenburg Gate on November 12, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A brief word to liberal activists: you won’t have much luck using White House petitions to protest President-elect Donald Trump.

The “We the People” petitions website operated by the White House removed a petition Tuesday afternoon for Trump to oust climate-change skeptic Myron Ebell from his transition team. The petition had nearly received 100,000 signatures, the threshold for receiving a response from the White House.