Posted on 03/29/2017 10:31:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
That didn’t take long.
Only 10 weeks into his presidency, and at great risk to future generations, Donald Trump has ordered the demolition of most of President Barack Obama’s policies to combat climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.
The assault began with Mr. Trump’s pledge in Detroit to roll back fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, continued with a stingy budget plan that would end funding for climate-related scientific programs and reached an unhappy apex Tuesday with an executive order that, among things, would rescind the centerpiece of Mr. Obama’s clean power strategy, a rule that would shut down hundreds of old coal-fired power plants and freeze the construction of new ones.
Are there ways to avert this madness? Yes. Mr. Trump’s orders will not take effect right away. The E.P.A. will need a year or longer to develop a replacement for the Clean Power Plan. Progressive states like California and New York will almost surely proceed with their own initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases. And then there is public opinion. It punished the Republicans severely in 1994 when Newt Gingrich and his allies tried to roll back environmental laws. It punished them again in 2008 after eight years of denialism and prevarication on climate change under George W. Bush and his fossil fuel acolyte, Dick Cheney. There is time enough before Mr. Trump’s ignorance translates into actual policy for the public to make its opposition to this anti-science agenda felt again.
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Well played sir!
Hard to know whether to laugh or puke.
Don’t do both; you could choke.
“What are they talking about?”
I don’t recall either the Republicans trying to roll back greentard laws or being punished for it.
Fake news, subtype “pure fabrication.”
I'm happy to see this reassuring article, because I was worried he was risking the entire universe.
In before the Goebbels pic and the Lysenko references ...
The planet! The WHOLE PLANET!!!! Find a tall building and throw yourself off, cuz it’s all over now.
Cue the picture of Captain Kirk yelling “KHAN” and substitute “TRUMP!!!!”
The comments section on the Times webpage for this article is unreal. These people are so serious and so worried about the planet ending. And I bet they are not all “under 30” snowflakes. Most Times readers I know are older people.
Oh. My. Gosh!!!!!!
We are all gonna DIE if Donald doesn’t join the plan of taxing and regulating us into submission to the one-world totalitarians..
Do these geniuses know there is a new smokestack factory coming online in India or China every 2 days?
Or that 30% of California’s pollution comes from Asia?
Notice that Obama's "pen and phone" was NOT an assault on our liberties, but Trump's reversal of Obama's executive orders IS the assault.
-PJ
This rag is helping by losing subscribers and therefor saving trees.
We have some of the cleanest water and air on earth. Meanwhile, China is really and truly poisoning every square inch of its land and air on a daily basis and a larger land mass than America too! Yet rolling back a few regulations is an indication that America is going to end civilization...wow, the insanity is stunning!
Oh, noes! Not the planet!
That’s where I keep all my stuff!
I’ll call his bet and raise him Mars.
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