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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
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
One of these changes is
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