Trump Guts Major Environmental Rule

 

In a reckless act that will adversely affect the health of millions of Americans and others around the world, the corrupt and profoundly ignorant Malignant Fascist had his Environmental "Protection" Agency rescind  a 2009 rule that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public safety and health.  The rule was one of the Obama Administration's signature environmental policies that supported sweeping regulations pertaining to climate change, which must have motivated the vindictive and envious MF.  From the Associated Press:

"The Obama-era finding is the legal underpinning of nearly all climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.

The repeal eliminates all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities, experts say. Legal challenges are near certain.

President Donald Trump called the move 'the single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far,' while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the endangerment finding 'the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach.'

Trump called the endangerment finding 'one of the greatest scams in history,' claiming falsely that it 'had no basis in fact' or law."  (our emphasis)

The projection from the political, fact-free decision by the MF and his regime is obvious.  The reaction to the MF's reckless and dangerous action from environmental and climate scientists was, of course, overwhelmingly negative:

“It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it’s akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing,” said Dr. Howard Frumkin, a physician and professor emeritus of public health at the University of Washington.

Thousands of scientific studies have looked at climate change and its effects on human health in the past five years and they predominantly show climate change is increasingly dangerous to people. [snip]

“'Study after study documents that climate change endangers health, for one simple reason: It’s true,' said Frumkin, a former director of the National Center for Environmental Health appointed by President George W. Bush.

'Health risks are increasing because human-cause climate change is already upon us. Take the 2021 heat dome for example, that killed (more than) 600 people in the Northwest,' said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician who directs the Center for Health, Energy and Environmental Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 'The new climate attribution studies show that event was made 150-fold more likely due to climate change.'” (our emphasis)

The MF's impulsive and dishonest Government by retribution, and his destruction of policies and programs  established by his envied and highly regarded predecessors shows his lack of decency and concern for average Americans.  Every day he's in office, the damage increases.