Trump put out a statement on Earth Day yesterday.
“My Administration is committed to keeping our air and water clean, to preserving our forests, lakes, and open spaces, and to protecting endangered species,” the statement read.
What a shameless liar. He just repealed a regulation protecting streams and other waterways a couple of weeks ago.
Here are some of the actions the Trump administration has taken on environmental issues so far:
- Trump signed an executive order rolling back former president Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan was aimed at reducing carbon emissions, reducing American reliance on coal and other fossil fuels, and promoting the use of alternative sources of energy to curb global warming
- Trump signed a bill repealing an Obama-era regulation that prevented coal mining companies from dumping debris and toxic waste into streams and rivers
- Trump signed a Congressional Review Act resolution which rolled back a financial disclosure requirement for energy companies
- Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, who said that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to climate change, to head up the Environmental Protection Agency
There’s more.
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Depends on the definition of “our” in his statement. Maybe he’s just talking about Mar-a-Taco.
I take it ‘Mar-a-Taco’ is some new Mexican restaurant Trump has just added to his taker portfolio.
It’s basically the same thing presidents have been saying since Earth Day started, including people like Dubya Bush. None of them really meant it (including Obama, who during his first term made efforts to reduce regulations), but Trump is probably the furthest of them all. He has done more damage to environmental regulations in his first two months than Dubya did in eight years. He has been more brazen, more overt, and less conciliatory than anyone could be, being openly anti-environmental throughout his campaign, and now has the audacity to stand up at Earth Day and say stupid banal things that everyone knows he doesn’t mean. Apparently they managed to get him to read from prepared speeches again.