Grist Article RatingKen Paxton may be impeached, but his anti-environment legacy will live on
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "As the sounds of clinking cutlery filled the room, Paxton broadcast what would become the defining crusade of his tenure: repeatedly suing the federal government -- in particular over environmental regulation." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "As a state with significant fossil fuel resources, the country's largest petrochemical hub, and a concentration of conservative judges who may be sympathetic to fossil fuel and business concerns, Texas became an ideal venue to file cases challenging environmental regulation." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "The bill will provide consistency in interpretation of state law and regulation, Craig Pritzlaff, an attorney in the environmental protection division of the attorney general's office, told lawmakers at a legislative hearing in 2017." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : As the sounds of clinking cutlery filled the room, Paxton broadcast what would become the defining crusade of his tenure: repeatedly suing the federal government -- in particular over environmental regulation.56% : As a state with significant fossil fuel resources, the country's largest petrochemical hub, and a concentration of conservative judges who may be sympathetic to fossil fuel and business concerns, Texas became an ideal venue to file cases challenging environmental regulation.
52% : "The bill will provide consistency in interpretation of state law and regulation," Craig Pritzlaff, an attorney in the environmental protection division of the attorney general's office, told lawmakers at a legislative hearing in 2017.
25% : He was giving an opening keynote on "The Clean Power Plan, the War on Coal, and Why I Sued the EPA" alongside coal baron Robert Murray.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.