Trump pushes new environmental rollbacks on his wasy out the door

INTRO

Date: 19 November 2020

Article from: AP NEWS

About: Trump's administration working on environmental rollbacks

Trump's administration is wroking to push trough a lot of environmental rollbacks

Consequences

  • Weakening of the protection for migratory birds
  • The expand of Arctic drilling
  • The hamstring of future regulaton of public health threats

These changes are going to challenge the President -elected Joe Biden

One of these changes is

Some decisions made by Donald Trump and his administration, if they go into effect, will be easy for Biden to reverse

Joe Biden already pledged to return the U.S. to the Paris climate record

BUT: due to Trump cuts, some of these changes will face years of work in court to repair

The restriction of criminal prosecution for industries responsible for deaths on migratory birds

Hawks and other species of birds of prey get often

Electrocuted on powerlines

Cought in wind turbines

Land on oil fields where they perish from toxic waters

Migratory Bird Treaty Act is a vital tool for the protection of birds

Trump administration advanced the bird treaty changes to the White House two days after news organizations declared Biden the winner of the presidential race

Trumps made similar administration moves which are now facing court challenges

The remove of protections for millions of miles of waterways and wetlands

The narrow protections for wildlife species facing extinction

And the opening of more than hundreds of millions of acres of public land to oil and gas drilling.

Pushing to get new rules on the books before the end of a president’s term is not unusual

Barack Obama and Joerge W. Bush both did it BUT

Trumps actions being taken in his final days reflect a pro-industry agenda taken to the extreme, in disregard for

And damage to human health from air pollution

Imperiled wildlife

Climate change.

The Trump administration from its first days pursued American “energy dominance”

Trump faces a lot of criticism coming from environmentalists saying his actions served his private interest over publics interest