Republicans don’t believe in the long game on climate control….
The Trump administration finalized its biggest climate policy rollback Wednesday, requiring the U.S. power sector to cut its 2030 carbon emissions 35 percent over 2005 levels — less than half of what experts calculate is needed to avert catastrophic warming of the planet.
The Affordable Clean Energy rule, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, demands much smaller carbon dioxide reductions than the industry is already on track to achieve, even without any federal regulation. As of last year the U.S. power sector had cut its greenhouse gas emissions 27 percent compared with 2005.
Addressing an audience of supporters, including coal miners from Pennsylvania and West Virginia, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the new policy will overturn a climate policy that would have imposed higher costs on low and middle-income Americans….
My Name Is Jack says
Who you gonna believe?
Them damn lying scientists or Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity?
Well we know who those”good people concerned about their country” that attended Trumps hatefest in Orlando do.
Republicans in general though continue to downplay the climate warnings from people wjpho know anything about the subject while parading paid for whores of the fossil fuel industry before the cameras as “impartial”experts.
jamesb says
It’s about get the money TODAY!
Leave their kids on their own!
Democratic Socialist Dave says
See my uninformed speculation whether killing OPM is a prelude to purging those industry-hating tree-loving experts (who of course know far less about Climate Change than Beloved Leader).