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After Public Outcry, Oklahoma Senate Lets Climate-Denial Bill Die | “Oklahoma’s House Bill 1551, one of two bills attacking the teaching of evolution and of climate change active in the Oklahoma legislature during 2012, is now in effect dead,” the National Center for Science Education reports. “Originally introduced in 2011, HB 1551 was rejected by the House Common Education Committee in that year, but revived and passed by the committee in 2012, and then passed by the House of Representatives on a 56-12 vote on March 15, 2012, and sent to the Senate Education Committee, where it died.” Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education led the successful campaign to block the bill. Home to climate denier-in-chief Sen. Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma is the hardest-hit state in the union by climate disasters.