Trump vs. the climate kooks
Liberal climate action groups are suing the Trump administration in the name of radical climate justice over the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to revoke the Obama-era greenhouse gas policy known as Endangerment Finding.
The Endangerment Finding policy, implemented in 2009, declared that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public welfare and, under the Clean Air Act, allows the government to regulate emissions from ventures such as cars and power plants.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. “If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.”
The two groups suing the administration — the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) — have a long history of trying to tear down the fossil fuel industry.
UCS joined with the EDF to bring a lawsuit against the Trump administration, which alleges the “causes of climate change and the resulting harms to millions of people are among the most important scientific issues that federal policymakers have ever confronted.”
The groups claim the Trump administration relied on a “secretively convened group of climate skeptics to prepare a now widely disparaged report in its attempt to undo the Endangerment Finding.”
It’s little surprise that the groups have launched a legal challenge against the administration’s decision. The UCS was central in coordinating the 2012 La Jolla workshop, which sought to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry in the United States.
At the meeting, organized by UCS and the Climate Accountability Institute, activists sought to understand the shift in public opinion around the tobacco industry in order to then implement the same playbook to influence climate-change policy.
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Maybe it is because I live out in the countryside and not next to a plant dealing with fossil fuels and other chemicals, but I find the climate to my liking. I also like the fact that I can get in my F-150 and work or go to the store in the city. Even if we all had Teslas, someone would still have to use fossil fuels to produce electricity. It is already apparent that wind and solar are not up to the task of providing the abundant electricity needed for modern living.
See also:
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