{"id":1003087,"date":"2018-12-06T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003087"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:12:26","slug":"trump-admin-continues-to-dismantle-environmental-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-continues-to-dismantle-environmental-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Continues to Dismantle Environmental Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite dire warnings about the dangers of climate change and new projections <\/a>that global carbon emissions are approaching record levels, the Trump administration continues to ignore science and promote an anti-environmental agenda.<\/p>\n

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Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has rolled back key environmental regulations and admitted he hasn\u2019t even read the administration\u2019s climate report.<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump has said he intends to nominate Wheeler as the head of the EPA, and in the past five months as acting administrator, Wheeler has moved aggressively to roll back key environmental regulations, prompting critics and environmentalists to say he is fast confirming their worst fears for the agency’s future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cAt the same forum, he admitted he had not read the climate change report released by his agency, which outlined dire warnings of the impact of global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist said to be the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind the environmental agenda of James Inhofe, who called climate change a \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CNN:<\/a> \u201cAndrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who is now acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was a \u2018driving force\u2019 behind the agenda of Sen. James Inhofe, who called climate change a \u2018hoax,\u2019 according to people familiar with Wheeler’s work for the senator.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, the Trump administration is expected to announce a plan to roll back restrictions on building new coal plants in the U.S., which were intended to limit the level of carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce the plan on Thursday, according to four people familiar with the administration\u2019s proposal who were not authorized to speak about it publicly. The proposal will eliminate Obama-era restrictions on newly built coal plants that in effect required them to include systems to capture the carbon dioxide they produced \u2014 a technology that is still not in use on a commercial scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration\u2019s rule would allow for 500 additional pounds of carbon dioxide to be emitted per megawatt-hour of electricity.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cUnder the Trump administration\u2019s rule, carbon dioxide emissions from new coal plants would not be allowed to exceed 1,900 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour of electricity, according to two people knowledgeable about the proposal. That\u2019s compared to the Obama rule, which limited emissions to 1,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The rollback comes as nearly 200 other nations design a new set of rules for the Paris Climate Accord, which Trump pledged to withdraw from last year.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe rollback comes as delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in Poland to design a set of rules for the Paris Agreement, the 2015 accord that called on countries to voluntarily scale back planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Trump administration has pledged to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and at the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires last week the United States declined to promise to uphold global climate change commitments. The administration is expected to send officials to the climate conference next week to hold a side event touting the benefits of coal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is such an oil industry insider, he momentarily forgot he doesn\u2019t actually work for them.<\/p>\n

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Huffington Post<\/a>: \u201cThere were moments during Tuesday\u2019s speech where Zinke sounded like a seasoned oil man. He said he is \u2018bullish\u2019 on energy and expects that within two years the U.S. will be \u2018marching real close to\u2019 producing 14 million barrels of oil per day. And he agrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin that $60 per barrel is \u2018a good spot to keep the economic engine\u2019 in good shape, he said. \u2018We\u2019ve gotten a lot better as industry,\u2019 Zinke said, quickly correcting himself. \u2018You\u2019ve gotten a lot better.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite dire warnings about the dangers of climate change and new projections that global carbon emissions are approaching record levels, the Trump administration continues to ignore science and promote an anti-environmental agenda.   Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has rolled back key environmental regulations and admitted he hasn\u2019t even read the administration\u2019s climate report.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump Admin Continues to Dismantle Environmental Protections - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-continues-to-dismantle-environmental-protections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-06T15:33:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:12:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-continues-to-dismantle-environmental-protections\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-admin-continues-to-dismantle-environmental-protections\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Admin Continues to Dismantle Environmental Protections - 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