THE ISSUE: CLIMATE CHANGE
The Trump Administration has:
– Pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the landmark international treaty to address climate change.
– Appointed Andrew R. Wheeler, a coal industry lobbyist and anti-EPA attorney, to run EPA.
– Left climate change completely out of the proposed 2021 federal budget and called for steep cuts to environmental programs.
-Proposed to drop standards to monitor and repair leaks of methane — a “super pollutant” vastly more potent than carbon dioxide in causing global warming.
– Ignored scientific data about the risks of climate change and dissolved the federal government’s science-based climate change advisory boards.
– Reversed 100 environmental rules, many of which involved climate change.
– Dismantled the Clean Power Plan, a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
– Proposed cutting funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), a move that would undermine promising new clean-energy technologies.
– Significantly weakened emissions standards that require automakers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting vehicles.
– Proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) so that agencies can ignore climate change when measuring environmental impacts of major infrastructure projects.
– Used the Covid-19 pandemic as a “rationale” to temporarily waive required environmental reviews of infrastructure projects—and permanently weaken clean air and climate change rules.
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Bibliography
Donald Trump’s Record on Climate Change
The world’s climate catastrophe worsens amid the pandemic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/29/worlds-climate-catastrophe-worsens-amid-pandemic
Federal policy on climate change, 2017-2020
https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_policy_on_climate_change,_2017-2020
The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html
7 Ways the Trump Administration Is Harming the Climate
https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/04/7-ways-trump-administration-harming-climate
Young People Rally for Green New Deal in Washington as Trump Administration Promotes Fossil Fuels at WorldClimate Talks
Tracking the Trackers
INSIDER: The Climate Effect of the Trump Administration
https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/12/insider-climate-effect-trump-administration
Donald Trump’s Record on Climate Change
Climate Change Once Again Left Out of Trump’s Federal Budget
Scientific American › article › clima…Web resultsClimate Change Once Again Left Out of Trump’s Federal Budget – Scientific American
Trump says ‘nothing’s a hoax’ about climate change
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/477548-trump-says-nothings-a-hoax-about-climate-change
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Who Is Andrew Wheeler? (And Why You Should Be Afraid of Him)
https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/who-andrew-wheeler-and-why-you-should-be-afraid-him
Trump on Climate Change Report, “I Don’t Believe It”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46351940
Environmental Protections on the Chopping Block
Trump, Citing Pandemic, Moves to Weaken Two Key Environmental Protections
Regulatory Rollback Tracker
Trump Environmental Rollbacks Roll On Despite Pandemic. Opponents Cry Foul
Trump dismantles environmental protections under cover of coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/trump-environmental-blitzkrieg-coronavirus
While No One Was Watching: Changing Environmental Regulations Under the Trump Administration
Tracking deregulation in the Trump era