'Viciousness’ of Trump’s climate attacks stuns even his crit
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:32 pm'Viciousness’ of Trump’s climate attacks stuns even his critics
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Benjamin Storrow, Jean Chemnick 02/22/2025 12:00 PM EST - POLITICO
EXCERPT: "President Donald Trump’s promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that’s surprising even some of his supporters and critics — and could leave an impact on the planet’s future well after his presidency.
His cost-cutting orders have led to the firings of thousands of people from the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Energy and the Interior, with even deeper slashing on the way. He’s dammed the flow of billions of federal dollars for energy rebates, low-income solar installations, electric vehicle chargers and more — sometimes flouting courts that ordered the money reinstated.
And he has cast uncertainty over clean energy industries by threatening tariffs on allied nations, pausing permits for wind projects and promising to roll back hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits contained in former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Taken together, Trump’s actions mark a vast and coordinated attack on U.S. environmental policy by a president who has spent years denying the tenets of climate science and the reality of rising global temperatures. Analysts and advocates say the administration’s moves threaten to reverse decades of painfully slow progress to curb planet-warming pollution. . . . . "
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[ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/2 ... t-00204998 ]
Benjamin Storrow, Jean Chemnick 02/22/2025 12:00 PM EST - POLITICO
EXCERPT: "President Donald Trump’s promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that’s surprising even some of his supporters and critics — and could leave an impact on the planet’s future well after his presidency.
His cost-cutting orders have led to the firings of thousands of people from the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Energy and the Interior, with even deeper slashing on the way. He’s dammed the flow of billions of federal dollars for energy rebates, low-income solar installations, electric vehicle chargers and more — sometimes flouting courts that ordered the money reinstated.
And he has cast uncertainty over clean energy industries by threatening tariffs on allied nations, pausing permits for wind projects and promising to roll back hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits contained in former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Taken together, Trump’s actions mark a vast and coordinated attack on U.S. environmental policy by a president who has spent years denying the tenets of climate science and the reality of rising global temperatures. Analysts and advocates say the administration’s moves threaten to reverse decades of painfully slow progress to curb planet-warming pollution. . . . . "
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