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By Robert Bradley Jr. — November 7, 2024
Ed. notes: This article was originally published on January 19, 2017, as Donald Trump was about to be inaugurated as president.
“Good news indeed! Energy cuts are a piece of cake compared to the hard budget choices faced in the transition from nationalism and stagnation to a dynamic, coordinated, and ever-expanding entrepreneurial economy.
Rome isn't burning, but Climate Progress' Joe Roem is. “Will Trump go down in history as the man who ended a livable climate?” he wrote, subtitled “The fate of humanity is in the hands of a denier who vows to kill domestic and global climate action and all clean energy research. “
Really, Joe?
But Rohm goes on to report (usefully):
Australian journalist Graham Readfearn pointed out that although you can’t find Trump’s original energy and climate “100-day action plan” on the campaign website, “it has been archived by the Wayback Machine.”
This is my 100-day plan:
- We will repeal all of Obama’s job-destroying executive actions, including the Climate Action Plan and America’s water rules.
- We will save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.
- I will ask Trans-Canada to update its license application for the Keystone Pipeline
- We will lift the moratorium on energy production in federal areas
- We will repeal policies that impose unreasonable restrictions on new drilling technologies. These technologies create millions of jobs in a smaller footprint than ever before.
- We will cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop paying all U.S. taxes to the United Nations global warming program.
- Any regulations that are outdated, unnecessary, detrimental to workers or contrary to the national interest will be repealed. We will also eliminate duplication, provide regulatory certainty and trust local officials and local residents.
- Any future regulation will pass a simple test: Will this regulation be good for American workers? If this test is not passed, the rule will not be approved.
Just as important, Trump (as Roem noted) has announced a plan to cut climate-related federal funding by $100 billion over eight years, which would require “all federal clean energy research and development to help countries around the world cope with the Climate change efforts are ground zero.” A whole-of-government climate science effort. “
Good news indeed! Energy cuts are a piece of cake compared to the hard budget choices faced in the transition from statism and stagnation to a dynamic, coordinated, and expanding entrepreneurial economy.
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