Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says
The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a gift to “billionaire polluters” at the expense of Americans’ health.
The endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare, has since 2009 allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources.
Donald Trump called the move “the single largest deregulatory action in American history”.
The move comes as part of Trump’s bigger anti-environment push, which has seen him roll back pollution rules and boost oil and gas.
The move was described as a gift to “billionaire polluters” at the expense of Americans’ health.
Note that while Americans might face increased localized problems, this also effects the entire world.
Fuck trump. I cannot wait for him and everyone involved in this shit storm to be dead.
while Americans might face increased localized problems, this also effects the entire world.
I’m not sure Americans know that those aren’t the same two concepts
When a bunch of billionaires, psychopaths and otherwise deranged people can backtrack 20 years of societal advances, we have to seriously rethink the system that allowed it.
Because those advances are not codified into law. The executive branch has been legislating for a significant portion of the last century.
Hoggish Greedly snorting away in excitement
It’s about time those fellas caught a break.
