The Energy 202: Trump's budget seeks cuts to climate research and renewable energy programs

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By Chris Mooney
March 12 at 8:00 AM

THE LIGHTBULB

By Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, Darryl Fears and Sarah Kaplan

The 2020 Trump administration budget overview document, released on Monday, doesn’t even bring up the subject of climate change in laying out the president’s major priorities.

Yet as in prior years, it telegraphs what the U.S. government thinks of climate change -- mostly by proposing, in the fine print released individually by separate agencies, numerous cuts to climate research, adaptation, and renewable energy programs.

Congress in past years has largely said no thank you to the administration's proposed cuts. Still, at a time when climate scientists globally say there’s barely a decade to slash emissions, and when the administration’s own scientists say effects within the United States are getting worse, the Trump administration is barely even shrugging at mounting concern over climate change.

The proposed plans for the Environmental Protection Agency are instructive about the administration's approach.

The 31 percent, $2.8 billion proposed cut, which would leave the agency a budget of $6.1 billion, is in line with the previous deep reductions that the administration has sought each year under President Trump. So far, Congress has been unwilling to go along, keeping the EPA’s budget largely stable.

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1. Living in its plastic bubble ..

Impervious to global warming affects...or is that effects?

The world in 2018 was 1.5F (0.83C) warmer than the average set between 1951 and 1980, said Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa). This means 2018's average global temperatures were the fourth warmest since 1880, placing it behind 2016, 2017 and 2015.Feb 6, 2019

Screw the small islands going under the water rise...the impact on our own coastal cities...
The extinction of the wildlife in the artic areas that are melting...The higher respiratory
occurances around coal burning power houses...

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