Since President Trump took office, his administration has initiated an aggressive rollback of U.S. environmental regulations, bringing short-term economic growth for affected areas while also creating severe environmental and public health risks for locals.
The impact of Trump’s environmental policy rollbacks can be seen across the U.S., from West Virginia to California. If pursued in full force, the rollbacks would shift the debate about the environment sharply in the direction of industry interests.
After protests from the oil industry, the Trump administration repealed limits on methane flaring and leaks on federal and Indian lands, a practice that creates pollutants that can cause respiratory problems and fouls the air with carcinogenic chemicals.
In Texas, emissions from the W.A. Parish power plant have been linked to as many as 180 premature deaths per year. Trump’s EPA lifted a rule that would force the plant to install a new air pollution device that would have prevented most of those deaths.
In West Virginia, the Kanawha River is lined with so many industrial plants, it’s called the Chemical Valley. Under President Trump, two Obama-era restrictions to clean up and protect rivers nationwide, including the Kanawha, have been repealed or delayed.
In California, chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that’s in the same chemical family as sarin nerve gas, is still in use after the Trump administration in 2017 squashed a ban on the product. As a result, instances of chlorpyrifos poisonings continue.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018...ation.html
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The impact of Trump’s environmental policy rollbacks can be seen across the U.S., from West Virginia to California. If pursued in full force, the rollbacks would shift the debate about the environment sharply in the direction of industry interests.
After protests from the oil industry, the Trump administration repealed limits on methane flaring and leaks on federal and Indian lands, a practice that creates pollutants that can cause respiratory problems and fouls the air with carcinogenic chemicals.
In Texas, emissions from the W.A. Parish power plant have been linked to as many as 180 premature deaths per year. Trump’s EPA lifted a rule that would force the plant to install a new air pollution device that would have prevented most of those deaths.
In West Virginia, the Kanawha River is lined with so many industrial plants, it’s called the Chemical Valley. Under President Trump, two Obama-era restrictions to clean up and protect rivers nationwide, including the Kanawha, have been repealed or delayed.
In California, chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that’s in the same chemical family as sarin nerve gas, is still in use after the Trump administration in 2017 squashed a ban on the product. As a result, instances of chlorpyrifos poisonings continue.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018...ation.html
Oh but Mexicans and Trans Kids - they are the real baddies.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"