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Trump and the Environment

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At 'America First Energy Conference', solar power is dumb, climate change is fake

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The second annual conference, organized by the conservative thinktank the Heartland Institute, pulled together speakers from JunkScience, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the Center For Industrial Progress, along with officials from the U.S. Department of Interior and the White House for panels that included: “Carbon Taxes, Cap & Trade, and Other Bad Ideas,” “Fiduciary Malpractice: The Sustainable Investment Movement,” and “Why CO2 Emissions Are Not Creating A Climate Crisis.”


The day-long conference reflected the political rise of global warming skeptics in Donald Trump’s America that is occurring despite mounting scientific evidence – including from U.S. government agencies - that burning oil, coal, and natural gas is heating the planet and leading to drought, floods, wildfires, and more frequent powerful storms.

A similar conference blasting the link between fossil fuels and climate change last year drew then-Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who was appointed by Trump to reverse Obama-era climate initiatives and roll back regulation hindering drillers and miners but who has since resigned in a flurry of ethical controversies.

The U.S. officials who joined included White House Special Assistant Brooke Rollins, Interior Department Assistant Secretary Joe Balash, and Jason Funes, an assistant in the office of external affairs at Interior. They praised the administration’s moves to clear the way for oil industry activity, and steered clear of commenting on climate change.
 
Go ahead and trade in your Tesla for a Hummer.

 
I look forward to Trump’s plans to make more fossils.
 

The fact that a cabinet secretary is on Breitbart claiming that environmental terrorism is the cause for fires perfectly symbolizes the mindset of this administration. As for the California story, I'm surprised anyone in the GOP cares about what happens to California. If the entire state burned up I seriously doubt whether most Trumpites would give a shit, at least until all that tax revenue California pays to the feds suddenly stopped.
 
The fact that a cabinet secretary is on Breitbart claiming that environmental terrorism is the cause for fires perfectly symbolizes the mindset of this administration. As for the California story, I'm surprised anyone in the GOP cares about what happens to California. If the entire state burned up I seriously doubt whether most Trumpites would give a shit, at least until all that tax revenue California pays to the feds suddenly stopped.


No, no, no.

The fires are all part of the “deep state” conspiracy. All due to Clinton/Obama/FBI corruption, you see.

Get with the (conspiracy) program.
 

^^ re-linked

1,400 premature deaths per year.

Trump administration officials say the Clean Power Plan, in its effort to reduce carbon emissions, illegally tried to force electric utilities to use greener energy sources. The new plan, they said, would achieve many of the benefits sought by the Obama administration but in a way that is legal and allows states greater flexibility.

Didn't Trump propose a plan to force energy companies to use coal?

Mr. Obama’s E.P.A. also estimated that, by 2030, the Clean Power Plan would result in 180,000 fewer missed school days per year by children because of ozone-related illnesses. Asthma instances would also drop significantly, according to the analysis.

By contrast, the Trump administration analysis finds that own its plan would see 48,000 new cases of exacerbated asthma and at least 21,000 new missed days of school annually by 2030 because those pollutants would increase in the atmosphere rather than decrease.

missed school.
 
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