By Charles Kennedy - Nov 12, 2024
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Organizations and activists skeptical of climate change have sent a memo to Trump’s transition team to call for gutting most of the science behind EPA’s regulations and reversing President Biden’s “anti-coal policies,” Bloomberg reports.
The groups include Illinois-based think tank Heartland Institute, Virginia-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which runs a website that promotes climate change skepticism.
Donald Trump’s win in last week’s presidential election “is a tremendous opportunity” to reverse most of President Biden’s climate and environmental protection policies, James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute, told Bloomberg.
“Donald Trump has demonstrated during his first four years in office that he will not be misled by the climate crisis myth,” Taylor said.
The groups are urging the president-elect to support coal for electricity production and gut the science behind the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules on pollution.
They are also seeking “delisting” of areas designated by the current administration for offshore wind, and preventing the U.S. grid from becoming too reliant on “variable” wind and solar power generation as a matter of national security.
Trump himself has vowed to scrap offshore wind, on day one.
“They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is. They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales,” Trump said on the campaign trail.
Climate skeptics are also urging Trump to repeal the so-called “endangerment finding” of the EPA, which found that rising emissions endanger public health and which underpins many EPA regulations.
Another Trump pullout from the 2015 Paris climate agreement should be accompanied by a Senate vote to prevent a future president from rejoining, the organizations say.
Yet, one of the top U.S. oil companies, ExxonMobil, has just warned President-elect Trump it would be a bad idea to leave the Paris Agreement, saying it would create uncertainty for the business world.
“I don’t think the stops and starts are the right thing for businesses,” Exxon’s CEO Darren Woods told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “It is extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty.”
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
Organizations and activists skeptical of climate change have sent a memo to Trump’s transition team to call for gutting most of the science behind EPA’s regulations and reversing President Biden’s “anti-coal policies,” Bloomberg reports.
The groups include Illinois-based think tank Heartland Institute, Virginia-based Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which runs a website that promotes climate change skepticism.
Donald Trump’s win in last week’s presidential election “is a tremendous opportunity” to reverse most of President Biden’s climate and environmental protection policies, James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute, told Bloomberg.
“Donald Trump has demonstrated during his first four years in office that he will not be misled by the climate crisis myth,” Taylor said.
The groups are urging the president-elect to support coal for electricity production and gut the science behind the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules on pollution.
They are also seeking “delisting” of areas designated by the current administration for offshore wind, and preventing the U.S. grid from becoming too reliant on “variable” wind and solar power generation as a matter of national security.
Trump himself has vowed to scrap offshore wind, on day one.
“They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is. They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales,” Trump said on the campaign trail.
Climate skeptics are also urging Trump to repeal the so-called “endangerment finding” of the EPA, which found that rising emissions endanger public health and which underpins many EPA regulations.
Another Trump pullout from the 2015 Paris climate agreement should be accompanied by a Senate vote to prevent a future president from rejoining, the organizations say.
Yet, one of the top U.S. oil companies, ExxonMobil, has just warned President-elect Trump it would be a bad idea to leave the Paris Agreement, saying it would create uncertainty for the business world.
“I don’t think the stops and starts are the right thing for businesses,” Exxon’s CEO Darren Woods told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “It is extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty.”
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
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