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Yee haw! The economy is rolling ! Unemployment is at record lows. Why them thar blacks have lower unemployment than ever before. That tax cut made us rich. Donald Trump is the greatest!
But we can't breathe. I tried to melt those extra dollars in my glass because we can't drink the water either.
The Trump environmental policies are catastrophies. And they are being ignored.
Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Trump's Presidency
Looking back at the rollbacks the president has made to environmental protections and regulations throughout his first year in office.
Author: Aubrey Menarndt & Luke Menard
Trump's first legislative act as president was to do away with a bipartisan amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, which required oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. During the Obama administration, the United States led the world in the creation of this sort of policy, inspiring parallel legislation in 30 countries, including Canada, Norway, and European Union nations. The law's aim was to provide transparency to areas such as transnational crime, terrorist financing, and "unhinged economic and environmental crime." Unsurprisingly, it's been opposed since its inception by oil giants like Chevron and then-Rex Tillerson-run ExxonMobil. (Indeed, Tillerson took his post as secretary of state mere days before Trump's decision to scrap the legislation.) In a move that's likely to shelter corporate malfeasance, the administration has whittled down the U.S.'s reputation as a global leader on extractive transparency.
https://psmag.com/environment/trumps-impact-on-the-environment
But we can't breathe. I tried to melt those extra dollars in my glass because we can't drink the water either.
The Trump environmental policies are catastrophies. And they are being ignored.
Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Trump's Presidency
Looking back at the rollbacks the president has made to environmental protections and regulations throughout his first year in office.
Author: Aubrey Menarndt & Luke Menard
Trump's first legislative act as president was to do away with a bipartisan amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, which required oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. During the Obama administration, the United States led the world in the creation of this sort of policy, inspiring parallel legislation in 30 countries, including Canada, Norway, and European Union nations. The law's aim was to provide transparency to areas such as transnational crime, terrorist financing, and "unhinged economic and environmental crime." Unsurprisingly, it's been opposed since its inception by oil giants like Chevron and then-Rex Tillerson-run ExxonMobil. (Indeed, Tillerson took his post as secretary of state mere days before Trump's decision to scrap the legislation.) In a move that's likely to shelter corporate malfeasance, the administration has whittled down the U.S.'s reputation as a global leader on extractive transparency.
https://psmag.com/environment/trumps-impact-on-the-environment