WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a recent interview with Eva McKend of Spectrum News, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was pressed about his reaction to Trump’s racist attacks on four women of color in Congress -- Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley. Wheeler twice refused to condemn Trump’s racism and instead pivoted to his own attacks on Congress while distorting the effects of the Administration’s policies that will lead to more pollution, especially in low-income communities and communities of color.
Today, E&E reported that, amid widespread public disapproval of Donald Trump’s monumental environmental policy failures, deadly rollbacks, and anti-science agenda, the Trump Administration’s panel to justify gutting climate safeguards AKA the “Presidential Committee on Climate Security” is dead until after the election.
Over the next two nights, Democratic presidential candidates will take to the debate stage in Miami, Florida, a city and state already living with the consequences of the climate crisis.
Today, CNN reported that Donald Trump’s panel to justify gutting climate safeguards AKA the “Presidential Committee on Climate Security” head William Happer promoted his anti climate science conspiracy theories on white nationalist Stefan Molyneux’s podcast, spoke at a conference organized by the AIDS denialist conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin as well as on a YouTube channel that pushes 9/11 conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday, the same evening Trump claimed the US has the “cleanest air and water” at a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, the AP reported that U.S. air quality is deteriorating after years of improvement. The decrease in air quality comes as Trump rolls back two of the US’ biggest defenses of clean air and a safe climate: the Clean Power Plan, replaced yesterday with the “Dirty Power Scam” and the clean car standards. Notably, the main architects of the rollbacks from EPA and NHTSA’s political leadership are about to face a congressional hearing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump will officially announce his candidacy for President of the United States for the 2020 election cycle. This week, Trump will finalize his rollback of the Clean Power Plan, life-saving climate action that constituted the first-ever safeguard from carbon pollution for existing power plants, and replaced it with the Dirty Power Plan, a polluter giveaway that will lead to the deaths of 1,400 Americans every year by the Trump EPA’s own admission. So far during his presidency Trump has rolled back protections from coal ash, the clean car standards, the Clean Power Plan, protections from methane pollution, and withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement -- and that’s just a sample of his anti-public health, anti-climate, and anti-environment agenda.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, in an interview with ABC, Donald Trump said he may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against 2020 Presidential opponents during the upcoming election. Trump claimed that he’s never called the FBI despite working extensively with the FBI in the 1980s and 90s. Trump then doubled down on his statement on Twitter. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report found at least 140 contacts between Trump and his associates and Russian nationals, WikiLeaks, and their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, BP released a report showing global carbon emissions increasing 2 percent over the last year, with U.S. energy consumption increasing 3.5 percent. Donald Trump and EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler have consistently touted U.S. emissions falling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump gave into pressure from the American people and signed a bill for desperately needed disaster recovery money after holding it up in an attempt to gain funding for his unpopular border wall. The bill will deliver much needed funds for Puerto Rico and other climate impacted areas across the United States. The bill will also extend of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) -- the single largest source of flood insurance that protects five million American households that are located in flood plains.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This morning, in an interview with Piers Morgan on the show “Good Morning Britain” following Donald Trump’s meeting with Charles, Prince of Wales, Donald Trump stated “I believe that there’s a change in weather, and I think it changes both ways.”
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is going to new lengths to hide the severity and urgency of the climate crisis from the American public. The U.S. Geological Survey will begin to limit how far into the future it projects the impact of climate change in its reports. Additionally, the next National Climate Assessment (NCA), an interagency report that examines the impact of climate change, will no longer include worst-case scenario projections. At the same time Trump is gutting the NCA’s data, he is creating a new panel staffed by extreme climate deniers in attempts to undermine it entirely.
Recently reported by E&E and Nature, the Environmental Protection Agency is zeroing out funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, leaving several ongoing studies about the impacts of pollution on child development in limbo.