Donald Trump’s race to destroy the planet

Donald Trump and his crocheted should be proud of themselves.
 
Certainly, there are previous departments of advanced or ignorant policies that have caused great harm to public and environmental health. In a book coming on the history of American law and the environment, I and Brigham Daniels have set a long history of destroyed measures by presidents, often with the support of Congress and acceptance by the judiciary – including the destruction of abundant species once and even the entire ecosystems.

This was the case in what we define as the allocation era (1781-1890) and the era of update (1920-1960) of the American environmental law. After each of these periods – first in the progressive era and then in the environmental age – democratic institutions adopted a set of local, state and federal laws, which were developed to eliminate or reduce the damage caused by law or at least.

Although these laws have helped enhance the preservation, maintenance and continuous use of natural resources and protect human health resulting from harmful products, pollution from development or the production of goods. These laws remain the backbone of environmental protection today. With Congress investments in Congress from the two parties from the 2021 infrastructure bill and the law to reduce inflation in 2022, there was a long -standing energy transmission for a long time.

In just a few months, the second Trump administration was doing its best to launch the most bold attacks on the Environmental Protection Law in the history of our nation. Usual illegal procedures are a lot to be included, but there are a few worthy a few.

Trump administration:

• She announced a deficit “National Energy Emergency“This combines the fateful and expensive dirty coal attempts as a leading source of energy, as well as increasing the exports of natural gas gas significantly (increasing the costs of pollution and American energy), and put unparalleled weeds of immovable and illogical attacks on renewable energy sources;

• Officially proud of the Environmental Protection AgencyThe largest editorial work in the history of the United States“Including 31 procedures designed or understood globally to increase pollution;

• He sought to cancel transparency and participate in environmental decisions, including cancellation The regulations that have long been explained by the National Environmental Policy Law and the presentation of “”Alternative Nepa proceduresThis reduces time schedules on subordinate decisions to less than two weeks;

• The science and scientific integrity attacked by greatly reducing the funding of federal research, and canceling the employees of the offices and branches designated for progress in science, such as Research and Development Office at Environmental Protection Agency;

• Stop or cut greatly Enforcement From basic environmental protection (or allowing industry The president’s email for rapid track exemptions); and

• Public Health Health and Food safety Programs, such as this for treatment Bird flu and Milk quality Test.

All this, in less than 200 days since this destroyed presidential term began.

Last month, the Trump administration may have taken its most destructive and declining step to date: the proposal to cancel the 16 -year -old in that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cause or contribute to human and environmental harm. This conclusion, with the support of overwhelming scientific evidence at the time and more than that day, is the basis for regulating EPA pollution that causes climate change.

This procedure is deliberate and even boasts of his ignorance of climate science. It is trying to distort the law in force, including the approval of the Congress 2022 to regulate greenhouse gases and the precedent of the Supreme Court in the United States. He adds to the already harmful instability of the US energy markets caused by the catastrophic President’s policies. Of course, it threatens to retract the necessary progress for human and environmental health in the United States and around the world to reduce the extent of global climate change.

Given the state of advanced scientific knowledge in an unparalleled way today, the global scope of potential damage and clear opportunities easily and increasingly showed on both environmental protection promotion with economic development – not to mention intentional denial and “legal” assault on each of these elements – any person will be severely pressured to not specify the second Trump administration as the worst in its options and procedures.

Over time, we will see the amount of harm that the courts will allow, or whether this (this or new) Congress will ascend to stop these reckless measures. But it seems that this president, who is chanting by his dirty energy collaborators, has won the shameful title of the “worst president of the environment in the history of the United States” in record time.

Alejandro E. Kamacho is a professor of law adviser at the University of California, Irvin, and a member of the Progressive Reform Center.