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Trump's death wish for the planet comes into view -- Sabrina Haake
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/trumps-death-wish-for-the-planetTrump’s Executive Order to accelerate climate change didn’t get nearly the press it should have, upstaged, as it was, by his more immediately destructive acts. By digging in to trash the economy, ignore court orders, and end habeas corpus as we know it, Trump successfully diverted attention away from his efforts to make sure big oil CEOs, among his largest donors, never have to face an angry American jury.
His “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach” EO, issued two weeks ago, is a blind assault on Federalism, meant to strip states of their inherent power to regulate pollution and protect natural resources within their borders. Taking aim at state and local-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, Trump’s ferociously anti-science, anti-environment EO seeks to destroy what has been called the last remaining hope for addressing climate change while there is still time. It anoints Pam Bondi as an all-too-willing agent of death: she is ordered to identify, investigate, and challenge any state laws and policies meant to address climate change, including laws that reduce carbon emissions from cars and factories.
Trump is hellbent on climate destruction. Aside from fast-tracking fossil fuel expansion, gutting EPA protections, and terminating wind energy developments, his EO directs Bondi to sue state and local governments to block their climate and clean energy policies and to “take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement” of a wide array of state climate and clean energy laws. His edict proclaims that, “Americans must be permitted to heat their homes, fuel their cars, and have peace of mind— free from policies that make energy more expensive and inevitably degrade quality of life.”
He obviously has no idea that, due to technological advancements, renewable energy has become cheaper and more reliable than coal-fired electricity.
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As forests, animals and neighborhoods burn, pollinators disappear, and streets slide into the ocean, the steepest price will be paid by today’s young. The head of the youth-led Sunrise Movement describes Trump’s energy EO as “an illegal, disgusting attempt to force everyday people to pay for the rising toll of climate disasters, while shielding the richest people in the world from (legal) accountability.” It also illustrates a president’s shocking ignorance of states’ rights.
His “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach” EO, issued two weeks ago, is a blind assault on Federalism, meant to strip states of their inherent power to regulate pollution and protect natural resources within their borders. Taking aim at state and local-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, Trump’s ferociously anti-science, anti-environment EO seeks to destroy what has been called the last remaining hope for addressing climate change while there is still time. It anoints Pam Bondi as an all-too-willing agent of death: she is ordered to identify, investigate, and challenge any state laws and policies meant to address climate change, including laws that reduce carbon emissions from cars and factories.
Trump is hellbent on climate destruction. Aside from fast-tracking fossil fuel expansion, gutting EPA protections, and terminating wind energy developments, his EO directs Bondi to sue state and local governments to block their climate and clean energy policies and to “take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement” of a wide array of state climate and clean energy laws. His edict proclaims that, “Americans must be permitted to heat their homes, fuel their cars, and have peace of mind— free from policies that make energy more expensive and inevitably degrade quality of life.”
He obviously has no idea that, due to technological advancements, renewable energy has become cheaper and more reliable than coal-fired electricity.
. . .
As forests, animals and neighborhoods burn, pollinators disappear, and streets slide into the ocean, the steepest price will be paid by today’s young. The head of the youth-led Sunrise Movement describes Trump’s energy EO as “an illegal, disgusting attempt to force everyday people to pay for the rising toll of climate disasters, while shielding the richest people in the world from (legal) accountability.” It also illustrates a president’s shocking ignorance of states’ rights.
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