Tracking the #Trump admis attempts to sell out to the fossil fuel industry

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Jenny Kordick
Energy & Climate Campaign at the @Wilderness Society and fellow with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.



Jul 25


Tracking the Trump administration’s attempts to sell out to the fossil fuel industry

https://medium.com/our-wild/tracking-all-the-ways-the-trump-administration-has-ensured-oil-gas-and-coal-trump-all-else-on-our-b6a77cd01b27


Oil well seen from just outside the entrance to Canyonlands National Park. Credit: Mason Cummings

The last six months have been a blur of activity for the Trump administration when it comes to management of our public lands. While Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke likens himself to Teddy Roosevelt, his track record to date tells a different story, and in fact puts Roosevelt’s land conservation legacy at risk.

Our team at the Wilderness Society has compiled a list of every action taken by the Trump administration to tip the scales on our public lands in favor of the oil, gas, and coal industry. We will continue add to this — and of course advocate tirelessly along the way to protect areas too wild to drill and make sure the public continues to have a voice in public lands decisions.
Actions taken to prioritize fossil fuels on our public lands and waters to date:

January 30: President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 13771 to reorganize government agencies, seeming to target in particular departments that work on climate change.

February: Almost as soon as he starts working for the Trump administration, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke begins to meet regularly behind closed doors with energy executives. From February through May alone, at least 58 representatives of the oil and gas industry signed their names on the agency’s visitor logs before meeting with Trump’s political appointees.

February 14: President Trump signs off on the repeal of an SEC rule whose creation was mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act and which required energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments — an important way to battle corruption in resource-rich developing countries. The regulation was scrapped through the Congressional Review Act..............................

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1. That is a site to bookmark. This is the real story of the Trump administration.

Thanks for the post.