Trumps environmental executive order is everything we feared.

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@AdamsFlaFan? @AdamsFlaFan 29m29 minutes ago

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Trump’s environmental executive order is everything we feared.

A senior White House official confirmed that President Trump will start rolling back key Obama-era climate policies on Tuesday. The executive order is aimed at sweeping away the Clean Power Plan, methane regulations, mining restrictions on federal land, and, well, you name it.

The White House will direct government agencies to root out “all rules, all policies, and guidance documents that serve as obstacles or impediments to domestic energy production,” according to the official who spoke on background during a conference call with reporters Monday evening.

“Energy independence,” said the official. “That’s the goal.” (For the record, the United States is already pretty independent, importing about 11 percent of its energy.)
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As details started to leak out after the conference call, environmental organizations were up in arms. The World Resources Institute called the impending order a “sledgehammer to U.S. climate action.”

When a reporter asked about green groups threatening to sue, the administration seemed unfazed. “I’m sure they’ll disagree, but what’s your point?” the official said. “When it comes to dealing with climate change, we want to take our own course and do it in our own form and fashion.”
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Emma Foehringer Merchant 10 hours ago

[MFM008]

1. so depressing.

damn him and his idiot voters.

[brer cat]

2. Through willful ignorance,

callousness, and greed they are going to joyfully make our planet uninhabitable. Science be damned, $$$ rule!

[bronxiteforever]

3. He and the Koch Brothers will speed the end of human life

Species extinction is rapidly upon us. The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020. What will be left is a world of cockroaches and jellyfishes.

[chelsea0011]

4. If you are old enough to remember The Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was host,

you can remember all the Los Angeles smog jokes. That is where trump wants to take us. Back again to the crap old days.