Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is pictured in the U.S. Capitol during a senate vote in February 2022.
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Longtime former Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, one of the most vehement climate change deniers to ever walk the halls of Congress, has died at age 89, the Tulsa World reported Tuesday.

Inhofe’s death comes one year after the staunch Republican retired following nearly three decades in the Senate. Few if any Republicans did more to sow public doubt about or stymie action to confront the growing, deadly impacts of fossil-fuel-driven planetary warming.

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