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According to a report, after the US election, Donald Trump’s team is planning a major change in climate policy – it affects the Paris Climate Agreement.
Washington DC – According to a media report, US President-elect Donald Trump is preparing a comprehensive turnaround in the environmental and climate policy of the world’s largest economy. This included not only withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, but also outsourcing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from Washington and reducing the size of nature reserves to make way for oil drilling and mining. That’s what she reports New York Times.
Two former cabinet members and well-known oil and coal lobbyists are expected to help Trump: the lawyer David Bernhardt, who was Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021 in Trump’s first term in office, and the lawyer Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the EPA under Trump from 2018 to 2021. The New York Times described both as “Washington insiders” who had years of experience dismantling government environmental protections.
Climate change in the USA: Trump already left the Paris climate protection agreement
The annual world climate conference begins on Monday, this time taking place in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. The USA is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. During his first term in office (2017-2021), Trump had already canceled the Paris climate protection agreement, which is intended to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. However, the USA rejoined under his successor Joe Biden.
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According to the report, Trump wants to immediately redraw the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, two protected areas in southern Utah. This will reopen thousands of hectares of land sacred to indigenous peoples to mining and other projects. Biden reversed a corresponding measure from Trump’s first term in office.
After US election: Trump is considering relocating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The possible relocation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is loud New York Times along with Trump’s efforts to move federal administration positions from unloved Washington to places that, according to Trump, are “full of patriots who love America.” The newspaper was referring to a video from Trump’s election campaign dismantling the so-called “deep state”. “Deep state” is a political buzzword that describes actual or alleged invisible power structures within a state.
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