Posted on 02/23/2017 7:55:36 PM PST by markomalley
First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, intervened to get a pending executive order stripped of language critical of an international climate agreement signed by President Barack Obama.
Kushner and Ivanka “intervened to strike language about the climate deal from an earlier draft of the executive order,” sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
Ivanka and her husband “have been considered a moderating influence on the White House’s position on climate change and environmental issues,” WSJ reports. Now, the executive order will have no mention of the so-called Paris agreement.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign two executive orders in the coming days to begin dismantling Obama’s Climate Action Plan and other costly environmental regulations. The orders reportedly target the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a moratorium on new coal mining leases, and the “Waters of the U.S.” rule.
Trump promised to withdraw from the Paris agreement and stop global warming payments to the U.N. while on the campaign trail. But Trump’s opposition to Obama’s climate agenda seems to be running up against his daughter’s plans.
WSJ noted the “move is the latest sign of influence Mr. Trump’s daughter and Mr. Kushner have in a White House that has seen internal divisions on a variety of issues, including foreign policy.”
A source close to Ivanka told Politico in December she “wants to make climate change — which her father has called a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese — one of her signature issues,” adding that “Ivanka is in the early stages of exploring how to use her spotlight to speak out on the issue.”
Ivanka and her father both met with former Vice President Al Gore, a global warming crusader, just days after Politico’s report. It’s unclear what was discussed at Trump Tower that day.
Nearly 200 nations signed onto the the U.N. agreement in Paris in 2015. The agreement went into effect in November, and Obama unilaterally committed to cut U.S. emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025.
Trump may also be receiving pressure to stay in the Paris agreement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing he thought the U.S. should keep their seat at the negotiating table.
Tillerson backed a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil.
If Trump kept the U.S. in the Paris agreement, it would likely be a symbolic gesture. One of the executive orders Trump is expected to soon sign requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw the CPP.
The Obama administration saw the CPP as its main tool to comply with the Paris agreement. The EPA estimates the CPP would have cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 32 percent by 2030.
The CPP is one of several EPA rules being challenged by dozens of states in federal court. The Supreme Court issued a stay against the CPP in 2016, but an executive order could render a court challenge moot.
Ivanka Trump is truly stunning (not guilty by any standard of beauty).
But I wish that she'd go back to New York and manage her business.
Ivanka needs to spend less time on the affairs of government and more time on her perfume line.
I don’t believe any of this Ivanka-is-the-brains-behind-Trump crap.
“Sources”... In other words Fake News
Oh yea. I’m sure that’s why Pruitt was nominated. Don’t buy this stuff
I didn’t see Ivanka’s name on the ballot.
I know Ivanka is the president’s daughter, but he needs to stop listening to her and Jared so much. they’re liberal Democrats. They’ll lead him astray.
Of course she’s against climate change since she’s a hottie.
I agree...They have to fill up those pages...
There s a war between the right and left. Ivanka and Jared should take care not to go to the left side else they become targets of citizen arrest for fraud.
she needs to go back to NY and be a mother , and run her business. I did not vote for her at all, and don;t want her there.
Ivanka is hot as hell, but people think she’s some type of Conservative.
She’s not conservative AT ALL.
Like her all you want but she’s center Left.
I hate these “unidentified sources said” articles. It’s just more tiresome fake news.
If President Trump restores the integrity of the temperature data record and removes the “corrections” that have been used to show “global warming”, no amount of smooth words will be able to obscure the facts.
You don’t have to shoot your mouth off concerning accords.
You simply cut them off at the knees, or toes.
Trump is a pretty savvy guy. His head is glued on squarely with the global warming nonsense.
The papers are always trying to place a wedge between Trump and one person or another. We should take this kind of thing with a measure of salt.
[I know Ivanka is the president’s daughter, but he needs to stop listening to her and Jared so much.]
PRESIDENT TRUMP,
There is no global warming. It’s in the BOOK. That’s the way it will be. GOD is the final answer on everything.
JOB 38:10-11
And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors, And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?
PROVERBS 8:29
When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
PSALM 104:9
You set a boundary that they may not pass over, So that they will not return to cover the earth.
JEREMIAH 5:22
‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares the LORD ‘Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.
Doesn’t take much to get you to believe this divide-and-conquer bullshit, does it?
Even if true, I don’t see where it changes his orders.
It strips out some language that doesn’t matter.e
I thinks it’s fake anyway.
She can't as part of her father divesting himself of the Trump Organization.
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