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Onlookers were left horrified Monday after The New York Times revealed a major policy “shift” being rolled out by the Trump administration regarding power plants.
“We’re all going to die because of this administration,” warned Michael Knudsen, editor-in-chief of the pop-culture blog PopBytes.
According to the Times, the Trump administration is gearing up to eliminate limits on “planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas,” citing two insiders who spoke with the outlet on the condition of anonymity.
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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has pushed to dismantle a broad swath of federal environmental safeguards, arguing that climate and pollution rules impose unnecessary costs on businesses and consumers. Most notably, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency moved earlier this year to repeal a 2009 endangerment finding, the legal foundation underpinning U.S. regulation on greenhouse gases.
With the Trump administration’s latest move, which aims to further deregulate the power sector — flagged by the Times as the “second largest source of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the United States” — countless critics were left taken aback.
“Donald Trump should just come clean and say he is out to destroy the world,” wrote Don Winslow, a prominent author and political activist.