Shitstain's New Coal Blowjob Could Block Future Presidents From Any EPA Action On Climate

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In the 476 months that he’s been in office, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he would like the earth to die in a fire—literally. In that time he has abandoned the Paris climate agreement; unveiled a proposal to freeze rules on planet-warming pollution from cars and trucks; claimed wind turbines aren’t a viable source of energy because the sound they make “causes cancer”; and hired a guy who believes carbon dioxide has been demonized like “Jews under Hitler” to discredit the findings of 13 federal agencies that increased levels of CO2 pose a national emergency. But it was only today that his pièce de résistance, when it comes to letting climate change really rip, was officially put into place.

On Wednesday, the administration officially replaced Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan with an alternative it cooked up called the Affordable Clean Energy rule. How do the regulations differ? Well:



While Obama’s measure would have substantially reduced planet-killing pollution from coal plants, by setting national emissions limits and requiring the “reconstruction of power grids to move utilities away from coal,” Trump’s rule will almost certainly increase levels of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by allowing states to decide how much they want to cut emissions. If they don’t want to cut them at all? That’s totally cool! (A 2018 joint study from Harvard, Syracuse, and Resources for the Future, a research organization showed that 18 states and D.C. would experience higher greenhouse emissions from the Trump rule; in 19 states, pollutants like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions would increase.)

The Clean Power Plan was expected to prevent between 1,500 and 3,600 premature deaths annually by 2030. The Affordable Clean Energy rule? Last August, Trump’s own E.P.A. (quietly) estimated that its replacement would cause between 470 and 1,400 premature deaths each year by 2030, due to “increased rates of microscopic airborne particulates known as PM 2.5.” In addition, its own analysis concluded the rule would cause 48,000 new cases of “exacerbated asthma” and a minimum of 21,000 missed school days a year by 2030 due to ozone-related illnesses. Perhaps realizing how bad all this looked, last month, the New York Times reported that the E.P.A planned to get thousands of those pesky deaths “off the books,” not by doing anything to actually prevent them, but by altering “the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution.”

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Incredibly, the new rule, which is expected to go into effect within 30 days, isn’t even the scariest part of this horror story. That will come after the legal challenges to the Affordable Clean Energy rule, which are all but a certainty, make it to the Supreme Court, where a ruling by Trump’s close pals could make it extremely difficult for future presidents to address climate change. Per the Times: Jody Freeman, a professor of environmental law at Harvard University and a former legal counsel in the Obama administration, said it would be “a blockbuster” if the Trump rule reached the Supreme Court and justices endorsed the administration approach. “It could foreclose a new administration from doing something more ambitious,” she said…. Jeffrey R. Holmstead, who served in the EPA during both Bush administrations and now represents utility companies as a lawyer for the firm Bracewell, said he thought the current Supreme Court would be skeptical of any presidential effort to regulate carbon emissions under existing law. “It will establish what the EPA can and can’t do,” Mr. Holmstead said of the new Trump rule. “I think it really will tie the hands of future administrations.”

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/trump-epa-affordable-clean-energy-rule

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1. no. he can be erased just as well as the moron is doing obama.