President Trump has just spent 100 days in power.
In the early hours of his second term, he withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization.
Since then, Mr. Trump’s administration has reduced the budgets of federal sciences and health agencies, licensee federal scientists, censorship research and threat universities, and rejected hundreds of volunteer scientists who prepared an important update of the country’s flagship assessment. The president said that his objectives were to minimize the regulations that have stifled industry and promote more energy production, which he considers central to economic growth. The president said he wanted the cleanest water and air while drilling, exploiting and burning more oil, gas and coal.
In this context, the White House posted A page on his website Entitled “The day of the earth, we finally have a president who follows science”.
The New York Times annotated a selection of statements on this page. The White House did not answer a detailed list of questions.
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The Trump administration is plan to relax or repeal Pollution standards on cars, power plants and chemical installations, as well as the reversal limits of the soot of chimneys, which have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths. It also plans to loosen or eliminate restrictions on mercury emissions, a neurotoxin. And, the Environmental Protection Agency also said that it would withdraw a rule that provides federal protections for rivers, rivers and wetlands.
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President Trump often refers to things related to climate change and clean energy as part of the “new green scam”. This seems to be a reference to the Green New Deal, a resolution introduced in 2019 by representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Senator Edward J. Markey de Massachusetts, the two Democrats, who are never adopted.
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Trump has widened federal subsidies for certain clean energy projects, including carbon capture, during his first mandate. These supporters have been widened under the Bipartite Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, which were signed by President Biden in 2021 and 2022. The two laws pay billions of dollars in the capture and storage of carbon, nuclear and geothermal energy.
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Trump signed decrees in January intended to facilitate and cheaper for companies to produce oil and gas, whose combustion is dangerously heating on the planet and for the government to stop clean energy projects that have been approved. In mid-April, the Trump administration ordered a stop to the Empire Wind projectwhich was designed to provide enough renewable electricity to feed around 500,000 houses in New York.
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Total American greenhouse gas emissions decreased during the first term of President Trump from 2017 to 2021.
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The slimming of selective trees and the elimination of sick trees and undergrowth during logging, if made with care, can reduce the risk of fire in certain contexts. But Flow by the Trump administration at the US Forest Service Could also hinder the country’s ability to manage forests in a responsibility while climate change continues to increase the probability of forest fires.
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It is true that paper straws can contain PFA. Environmental groups say, however, that a much greater problem is the presence of PFA in drinking water. The Biden Administration has established new strict federal standards on APF in drinking water last year, but groups of industry and public services continued the federal government to make them go back. We don’t know what the Trump administration will do.
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The manufacturing of paper straws can have a higher carbon footprint and use more water than plastic straws. But plastic straws are an important source of litter, because they take a long time to decompose, and they lose harmful microplastics. Plastic production also releases greenhouse gases, rechucting planets and other dangerous pollutants.
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Looking at the limits of EPA on coal emissions, the dirtiest fossil fuel, is in contradiction to maintain environmental standards and the affirmation of the administration that it takes advantage of environmental policies to ensure clean air. Burn more coal with less restrictions would increase carbon dioxide, which is one of the main engines of global warming, as well as mercury, particles and other pollution linked to health problems and premature deaths.
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Although the United States produces more energy than it consumes, the Trump administration said It would speed up approvals drilling and extraction on public lands, reducing the time devoted to environmental examinations required before issuing permits for these projects. Opinions that generally take a year end in 14 days, officials said. The administration also plans to sell public land for housing, which, according to environmental groups, could affect the habitats of endangered species.
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Deforestation in Amazon is at its lowest level in nine years, according to data from the National Space Research Institute in Brazil, INPE.
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One of the reasons for the important emissions from China is its continuous dependence on coal, a source of energy that has decreased in the United States but that President Trump is Try to rekindle.
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The Reuters article Referenced here also notes that “the United States was the only rich industrialized nation in the best polluters”.
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The Trump administration has closed the World Change Change Office of the State Department, where diplomats had pushed China to reduce its use of coal. These talks have now ended.
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The Trump administration weakens many regulations that protect a variety of vulnerable animals and plants. An example that has particularly alarmed environmentalists is a proposal to do so easier to destroy habitat This endangered species is based.
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If it is true that wind turbines kill bats and birds, they also provide the clean energy necessary to transmit humans far from the planet’s fossil fuels. Climate change is a major engine of the loss of biodiversity, and scientists warn that it will cause even more damage to species in the coming decades.