Trump. ‘Clima’ addio. Deobamizzazione a ritmo continuo.

Giuseppe Sandro Mela.

2017-03-28.

Mentre lo sparuto manipolo dei deputati che i liberal democratici sono riusciti a far eleggere in Congresso, e senatori in Senato, stanno disquisendo dei massimi sistemi della loro ideologia:

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nuova forza politica che l’articolista candidamente riporta avere ben 150 seguaci in un’America di oltre 315 milioni di abitanti,

«President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to undo policies designed to keep the carbon-cutting promises the U.S. made alongside nearly 200 other countries in Paris, while stopping short of a decision to formally withdraw from that landmark climate accord.»

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Abbiamo già ampiamente riportato il continuo processo di deobamizzazione intrapreso dal Presidente Trump.

Deobamizzare significa bonificare da leggi, norme e regolmenti che coercivano le libertà personali ed il sistema economico produttivo, soprattutto bonifica delle entità parassite.

Trump. In settimana l’esecutivo per smantellare il CPP dell’Epa.

Trumps. Vietato ai dipendenti Epa ed Usda divulgare segreti di ufficio.

Trump taglia la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Trump. Clima. ‘Unelected bureaucrats must be stopped’.

Mr Trump ordina e G20 cancella i fondi per il ‘clima’.  

America. La politicizzazione della giustizia.

Stati Uniti. Cosa sono gli ‘Ordini Esecutivi’ di un Presidente.

Trump. Cade la prima testa di una anchorwoman pro-choice.

Mr Trump ordina e G20 cancella i fondi per il ‘clima’.

Trump. Ha messo nel collimatore il Congressional Budget Office.

Trump. Deobamizzato il Planned Parenthood.

Trump. Deobamizza 46 procure federali.

Trump. Exxon investe 20b$ in Usa. 47,000 posti di lavoro.

Trump. La deobamizzazione procede deregolando l’automobilistico.

Petizione di 300 scienziati perché Mr Trump ritiri gli Usa dall’accordo di Parigi.

Vittoria di Trump valutata dal punto di vista cinese.

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«Even without formally pulling out of the Paris pact, the U.S. is abandoning its pledge to pay $3 billion into a United Nations fund to help countries on the front lines of climate change»

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«U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to undo a slew of Obama-era climate change regulations, a move meant to bolster domestic energy production»

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«The decree, dubbed the “Energy Independence” order, will seek to undo former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan requiring states to slash carbon emissions from power plants»

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«The previous administration devalued workers with their policies. We can protect the environment while providing people with work»

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«”These actions are an assault on American values and they endanger the health, safety and prosperity of every American,” said billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, the head of activist group NextGen Climate»

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I liberals democratici si stringeranno presto attorno al “billionaire environmental activist” Tom Steyer, il cui “activist group NextGen Climate” non riceverà più due miliardi di dollari all’anno per le sue opere benefiche a favore dei miliardari in difficoltà.

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Se si facesse un pochino di conti, verrebbe fuori che quatto quatto il Presidente Trump ha già tagliato fondi federali,ossia denaro pubblico, devoluti dalla passata Amministrazione Obama ad “Agenzie indipendenti“, ma nei fatti tutte democratiche, per oltre cinquanta miliardi di dollari americani.

E queste sono solo i briciolotti.

Queste “Agenzie indipendenti” governavano infatti la distribuzione di grant per quasi quattrocento miliardi, che veniva regolarmente percepiti dall’esercito dei clientes democratici.

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Adesso si capisce meglio perché mai i liberals stiano piangendo anche il liquor meningeo? A loro del ‘Clima‘ non importava un fico secco: volevano solo ed esclusivamente soldi, soldi, tanti soldi, tutti pubblici, presi senza fare nessuna fatica.

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→ Bloomberg. 2017-03-28. Trump to Cancel Obama Policies Aimed at Paris Climate Pledge

President hasn’t announced if U.S. will quit pact on emissions Clean Power Plan, methane limits targeted for rollback

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President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to undo policies designed to keep the carbon-cutting promises the U.S. made alongside nearly 200 other countries in Paris, while stopping short of a decision to formally withdraw from that landmark climate accord.

Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday that begins unraveling a raft of rules and directives to combat climate change, which President Barack Obama wove into the fabric of the federal government as he made addressing the issue a centerpiece of his second term.

The changes stem from Trump’s desire to advance the U.S. economy and domestic production of energy from fossil fuels as well as nuclear and renewable sources, while still protecting the air and water, a senior White House official told reporters Monday.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told Fox and Friends Tuesday that Trump was “coming to the EPA to set a new course” that is “pro growth, pro jobs and pro environment.”

Trump, who once called climate change a hoax, has vowed to reorient the federal government so that U.S. oil and coal producers thrive, while manufacturers aren’t burdened by “job-killing” restrictions.

“A lot of people are going to be put back to work, a lot of coal miners are going back to work,” he said during a rally in Louisville, Kentucky last week.

Some changes will happen immediately, such as the repeal of a 2016 policy that encouraged federal regulators to consider climate change in environmental reviews as well as directives from Obama that compelled government agencies and the military to factor the phenomenon into their planning. The Interior Department also will swiftly rescind a moratorium on the sale of new rights to extract coal on federal land.

And the Trump administration also is tossing an Obama-era “social cost of carbon” metric that estimated the potential economic damage from climate change and was used to justify a slew of environmental actions, from efficiency standards for microwave ovens to the revamp of government buildings. Instead, the government will return to an earlier 2003 approach for estimating the potential costs of any regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions.

Other policy pivots will take years of work, such as reversing the Clean Power Plan that forced states to cut greenhouse gas emissions from electricity. An Interior Department rule setting requirements for hydraulic fracturing on federal land will be rescinded. And a pair of regulations governing potent methane emissions from oil and gas wells also will be reviewed at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department — with possible changes or a reversal years away.

Most — if not all — of the changes will face legal challenges from the same environmentalists who already are fighting to defend Obama’s Clean Power Plan in federal court.

“In taking a sledgehammer to U.S. climate action, the administration will push the country backward, making it harder and more expensive to reduce emissions,” Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute, said in an emailed statement. “Climate science is clear and unwavering: mounting greenhouse gas emissions are warming our planet, putting people and business in harm’s way.”

The news was cheered by some conservatives who have been pushing Trump to go even further in stripping climate regulations from the rulebooks, including by undoing the EPA’s landmark declaration that greenhouse gas emissions jeopardize the public health and welfare. That 2009 endangerment finding served as the underpinning for later EPA carbon rules.

Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, cast Trump’s executive order as a good start.

“It takes the necessary first steps in undoing President Obama’s energy-rationing agenda,” Ebell said by email. “Of course, there is more work to be done down the road, most importantly withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty and reopening the endangerment finding.”

The Trump administration hasn’t said if the U.S. will remain a part of the 2015 Paris climate accord — despite the president’s campaign pledges to rip up the deal that set broad, non-binding carbon-cutting targets for the U.S. and nearly 200 other countries. Whether the U.S. remains in the pact is still under discussion, according to the senior White House official.

Secretary Tillerson

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has advocated the U.S. keep its seat at the table by sticking with the plan. Even without formally pulling out of the Paris pact, the U.S. is abandoning its pledge to pay $3 billion into a United Nations fund to help countries on the front lines of climate change.

Trump’s actions are politically significant, following months of promises to reverse the fortunes of struggling coal miners — campaign vows that helped propel him to victory in industrial strongholds like West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Although the changes he is setting in motion will make it cheaper to extract coal and use it to generate electricity, they are unlikely to dramatically boost domestic demand for coal, which faces stiff competition from cheap natural gas and is affected by other pollution regulations untouched by Trump’s order.

And mining jobs have been in decline for decades as automated equipment increasingly unearths coal, doing the work that once required pick axes and mules.

Even before the Obama administration imposed the coal-leasing moratorium in January 2016, coal producers had little interest in adding new federal reserves to their portfolios, amid slumping domestic demand. Existing federal leases contain at least 20 years’ worth of coal, according to Interior Department estimates.

It was not immediately clear Monday whether Trump’s Interior Department would continue a broad review of the federal coal leasing program even as it restarts sales; that analysis is already about a third complete, with regulators unveiling a broad blueprint of possible changes earlier this year.

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune called Trump’s order “the single biggest attack on climate action in U.S. history” and said it was a misguided attempt to help workers displaced by the global shift to cleaner energy sources.

“The best way to protect workers and the environment is to invest in growing the clean energy economy that is already outpacing fossil fuels and ensuring no one is left behind,” Brune said in an emailed statement. “At a time when we can declare independence from dirty fuels by embracing clean energy, this action could only deepen our dependence on fuels that pollute our air, water and climate while making our kids sicker.”

Legal Limbo

The EPA’s Clean Power Plan was already in legal limbo, having been put on hold by the Supreme Court in February 2016, while lower court proceedings were underway. The U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments on the challenge last September but has not ruled on the case that the Trump administration will now seek to put on hold. Environmental groups and states that support the rule and are defending it in court have vowed to fight to keep those proceedings going.

Janet McCabe, the former head of the EPA Office of Air and Radiation that helped develop the Clean Power Plan, defended the measure as a “solid, reasonable and flexible rule based on years of research and outreach that follows” an ongoing market transition toward cleaner energy. “EPA has an obligation to address carbon pollution,” she said in an emailed statement. “Congress put the Clean Air Act in place to protect Americans from air pollution, and there is no doubt greenhouse gases are air pollution; the science makes that crystal clear.”

Critics of the initiative said the EPA went beyond its authority under the Clean Air Act by imposing broad statewide emissions targets, rather than specific mandates for individual power plants.

“The Clean Power plan was an unprecedented power grab by the previous administration that was built on a shaky legal foundation,” said Thomas Pyle, head of the American Energy Alliance, a fossil fuel-oriented free market advocacy group. “This executive order won’t get rid of the regulation overnight, but it’s an important first step that reaffirms President Trump’s commitment to protecting American families from higher energy costs.”

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→ Reuters. 2017-03-28. Trump to sign order sweeping away Obama-era climate policies

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to undo a slew of Obama-era climate change regulations, a move meant to bolster domestic energy production but which environmentalists have vowed to challenge in court.

The decree, dubbed the “Energy Independence” order, will seek to undo former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan requiring states to slash carbon emissions from power plants – a critical element in helping the United States meet its commitments to a global climate change accord agreed by nearly 200 countries in Paris in December 2015.

It will also rescind a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, reverse rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production, and reduce the weight of climate change in federal agencies’ assessments of new regulations.

“We’re going to go in a different direction,” a senior White House official told reporters ahead of Tuesday’s order. “The previous administration devalued workers with their policies. We can protect the environment while providing people with work.”

Trump will sign the order at the EPA with the agency’s Administrator Scott Pruitt, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday afternoon.

The wide-ranging order is the boldest yet in Trump’s broader push to cut environmental regulation to revive the oil and gas drilling and coal mining industries, a promise he made repeatedly during his campaign for the presidency.

“I cannot tell you how many jobs the executive order is going to create but I can tell you that it provides confidence in this administration’s commitment to the coal industry,” Kentucky Coal Association president Tyler White told Reuters.

PARIS ACCORD NOT ADDRESSED

Environmental groups have promised to challenge the orders.

“These actions are an assault on American values and they endanger the health, safety and prosperity of every American,” said billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, the head of activist group NextGen Climate.

Green group Earthjustice said it will fight the order both in and out of court. “This order ignores the law and scientific reality,” said the group’s president Trip Van Noppen.

Trump campaigned on a promise to sweep aside green regulations he said hurt the economy, and vowed to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Since being elected, however, he has been mum on the Paris deal and the executive order does not address it.

The White House official said Trump’s administration was discussing its approach to the accord, meant to limit the planet’s warming by reducing carbon emissions.

The order will direct the EPA to start a formal “review” process to undo the Clean Power Plan, which was introduced by Obama in 2014 but has never been implemented in part because of legal challenges brought by Republican states.

The review is likely to trigger legal challenges by environmental groups and some state attorneys general that could last years.

The Clean Power Plan would have required states to collectively cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.