Exclusive: Draft details Trump's plan for reversing Obama climate rule

[babylonsister]

Exclusive: Draft details Trump’s plan for reversing Obama climate rule
A portion of the rule obtained by POLITICO shows Trump’s EPA easing the planned limits on the pollution from power generators driving climate change.
By EMILY HOLDEN
08/14/2018 07:46 PM EDT


The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan for undoing Barack Obama’s most ambitious climate regulation — offering a replacement that would do far less to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO’s review of a portion of the unpublished draft.

The new climate proposal for coal-burning power plants, expected to be released in the coming days, would give states wide latitude to write their own modest regulations for coal plants or even seek permission to opt out, according to the document and a source who has read other sections of the draft.

That’s a sharp contrast from the aims of Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a 2015 regulation that would have sped a shift away from coal use and toward less-polluting sources such as natural gas, wind and solar. That plan was the centerpiece of Obama’s pledge for the U.S. to cut carbon dioxide emissions as part of the Paris climate agreement, which President Donald Trump has said he plans to exit.

The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that both carbon emissions and pollutants such as soot and smog would be higher under its new proposal than under the Clean Power Plan. And Trump’s critics call it a recipe for abandoning the effort to take on one of the world’s most urgent problems.

The proposal would be “another, more official, sign that the government of the United States is not committed to climate policy,” said Janet McCabe, EPA’s air chief under Obama.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/14/trump-reverse-climate-rule-740066

[Achilleaze]

1. Why do republicans hate planet earth?

Why do republicans want to piss all over the air, water, and soil, thereby turning the earth into a foul, overheated polluted miserable shithole of CLIMATE CHAOS for their children and grandchildren?

Totally sick to do this to your kids.

[secondwind]

2. The very least he could do is to leave our

air and water alone!!!

[BeckyDem]

3. Republicans kill everything good, eventually. This is sick.