{"id":441,"date":"2017-03-14T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:45:43","slug":"trump-dropping-climate-change-no-longer-to-be-included-in-environmental-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/441","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dropping Climate Change, No Longer To Be Included In Environmental Reviews..\/."},"content":{"rendered":"

With republicans controlling both houses\u00a0of congress and Trump in the Oval\u00a0Office we knew environmental concerns, especially climate change, would be a very low priority. One of Trump’s stated first order of business was to cut regulations. Giving those businesses who have impact on our environment and climate a clearer path to profit, at the expense of us all. The scientific community’s consensus <\/a>it that the climate is warming. A direct result of greenhouse\u00a0gases.\u00a0\u00a0Trump’s, and the GOP’s, denial that anthropogenic global warming <\/a>is real shows their basic scientific ignorance as well as putting human life form at greater risk in the future.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/a> – <\/strong>President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to dramatically shrink the role climate change plays in decisions across the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, according to a person familiar with the administration\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n

The order, which could be signed this week, goes far beyond a targeted assault on Obama-era measures blocking coal leasing and throttling greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that has been discussed for weeks. Some of the changes could happen immediately; others could take years to implement.<\/p>\n

It aims to reverse President Barack Obama\u2019s broad approach for addressing climate change. One Obama-era policy instructed<\/span><\/u><\/a> government agencies to factor climate change into formal environmental reviews, such as that for the Keystone XL pipeline. Trump\u2019s order also will compel a reconsideration of the government\u2019s use of a metric<\/span><\/u><\/a> known as the “social cost of carbon”\u00a0that reflects the potential economic damage from climate change. It was used by the Obama administration to justify a suite of regulations.<\/p>\n

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Environmentalists said the president\u2019s action will erode the international leadership the U.S. has played addressing climate change and encouraging other countries to limit the heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions that are the primary driver of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The anticipated action “puts our country, our communities and our people at great risk,” said Paul Getsos, national coordinator of the People\u2019s Climate Movement, a coalition of labor, civil rights and faith-based groups. “It also sends a dangerous message to the world that the United States<\/span><\/u><\/a> does not care about climate change or protecting front-line communities.”<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s coming order has been discussed by his staff since before he took office. Asked about when the executive order would be issued, White House spokesman Kelly Love said she had “nothing to announce at this time.”<\/p>\n

It will set in motion some discrete policy changes designed to make coal easier to extract and more enticing to burn.<\/p>\n

For instance, the directive will compel the Environmental Protection Agency<\/span><\/u><\/a> to undo the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era rule that forced states to slash the use of coal-fired electricity. Trump also is set to direct Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reverse an Obama administration order that blocked the sale of new coal-mining rights on federal lands to producers such as Cloud Peak Energy Inc.<\/span><\/u><\/a> and Peabody Energy Corp.<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

The measure also is set to direct regulators to rescind Obama-era regulations limiting oil industry emissions of methane, a particularly potent — though short-lived — greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n

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It is clear that Trump has zero concern for the environment and that he will keep his campaign promise to coal miners. After all his disregard fr the climate and the future IS one of the things that got him elected.<\/p>\n

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