Key Shitstain Goal: Destruction Of Environmental Regulations And The Legal/Scientific Systems That Created Them
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President Biden has restored many of the 100 environmental rules and policies that were killed by the Trump administration. But if Mr. Trump wins next week’s election, he is expected to not only erase those regulations again but also try to make sure that they can’t be revived. He and his allies have mapped out a plan to dismantle the legal and scientific foundations of the federal government’s authority to regulate the environment, particularly on climate change. “Trump’s the worst president for the environment in American history,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and professor at Rice University. “A second term will be brutal. He is going to go full throttle on having the trophy of shutting down the green movement and replacing it with an older-style gasoline and coal-fired America.”
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Mr. Trump’s first administration virtually deleted climate change from federal policy. He made the United States the only country to withdraw from the Paris accord, the 2015 global agreement among 195 nations to fight climate change. At home, Mr. Trump’s top E.P.A. appointees dismantled rules to cut fossil fuel pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells, essentially ensuring that billions of tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions would continue to heat up the atmosphere. President Biden restored those climate protections, rejoined the Paris agreement and revived, expanded, and strengthened regulations on fossil fuel pollution. But a second Trump administration is expected to try to permanently bury those regulations. For example, Mr. Trump’s allies are keen to invalidate an Obama-era conclusion by the E.P.A. that carbon dioxide emissions harm human health, which forms the legal basis for virtually every climate regulation.
Mr. Trump would be aided by a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court that includes three of his appointees. In a spate of decisions over the past two years, the Supreme Court has hemmed in the government’s authority to regulate climate, air and water pollution. And in June, the Supreme Court overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which held that courts should defer to the expertise of federal agencies when a law is unclear. That ruling is expected to undercut the authority of many federal agencies, including the E.P.A., to enact major new regulations. “One tool we have now that we didn’t in the first term is that Chevron is no longer a leading legal doctrine,” Ms. (Ed. Trump hack and former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy) Gunasekara said. “That creates better legal opportunities for taking durable actions.”
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His allies, however, have included specifics in Project 2025. William Perry Pendley, who led Mr. Trump’s Bureau of Land Management and was removed from that job by a federal court, wrote the chapter on the Interior Department in which he said the top priority should be to manage the “the vast storehouse of hydrocarbons” — gas, oil and coal — that lies beneath public lands and under federal waters. In addition to reinstating oil and gas leases that the Biden administration had cancelled, that would mean making it cheaper for companies to drill and mine on public lands, ending endangered species status for animals like the grizzly bear and indemnifying oil, construction and other industries if they kill or injure birds while doing business. Project 2025 also calls for a repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows presidents to create national monuments protected from commercial activities like drilling and mining.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/climate/trump-environment-election.html
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Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
by Allan Sloan, ProPublica, and Cezary Podkul for ProPublica Jan. 14, 2021, 5 a.m. EST
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