Not Mentioned In Shitstain's Big Green Speech - Climate; Oh, And A Bonus - Lie Upon Lie Upon Lie

[hatrack]

President Trump trumpeted the administration's progress in protecting the environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a public address before Cabinet members, politicians and other supporters at the White House this afternoon.

The public remarks come in the midst of high-profile regulatory rollbacks related to air and water, including the final repeal and replacement of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan last month.

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While not mentioning climate directly, he said emissions had declined "more than any other" country and that reductions were projected to continue this year and next year. "Every signatory [of the Paris climate agreement] lags behind America in overall emissions reductions. Who would have thought that was possible?" he said. U.S. carbon emissions rose 2.7% last year, according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, an economic consulting firm (Greenwire, May 31).

The president reiterated his economic arguments against Paris and cheered his decision to pull out of the international accord. "We will defend the environment, but we will also defend American sovereignty, American prosperity, and we will defend American jobs," he said, also pushing his energy dominance message. Trump touted the fact that EPA has been working to update regulations for lead and copper in drinking water. However, the agency has yet to propose any new standards. Before the election, the Obama administration had planned to release its new proposal in June 2017.

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https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2019/07/08/stories/1060713261

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A senior White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and had reviewed internal campaign polling, said that the numbers showed Mr. Trump was “never going to get” the type of voter who feels passionately about tackling climate change. But, the official said, there were moderate voters who like the president’s economic policies who “just want to know that he’s being responsible” on environmental issues. And that is who the speech will be aimed at convincing.

Mr. Trump was joined by Mr. Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, and David Bernhardt, the interior secretary and a former oil lobbyist, who has led the way in opening up the nation’s public lands and waters to more drilling.

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Last month, in a move that represented the Trump administration’s most direct effort to date to protect the coal industry, the E.P.A. finalized its plan to replace former President Barack Obama’s stringent rule on coal pollution with a new rule that would keep plants open longer and significantly increase the nation’s emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution. This summer, the E.P.A. is expected to finalize another plan that would replace Mr. Obama’s strict regulations on planet-warming tailpipe pollution, replacing them with a new rule that experts say is likely to function as a total repeal of the original regulation.

The incongruous message of environmental preservation is so starkly at odds with Mr. Trump’s own record, experts say, that the moment already smacks of the surreal. “It is an utter farce for the president to talk about America’s environmental leadership, when he has been a champion of the polluters,” Mr. Brinkley said.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/politics/trump-environment-climate-change.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fclimate&action=click&contentCollection=climate&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

[saidsimplesimon]

1. hatrack, I want to throttle anyone

who distorts the grim climate we live in and offers egocentric solutions.