Donald Trump's administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US's climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health.
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Republicans and their morbidly rich donors have hated Social Security ever since it was first created in 1935. They've called it everything from communism to socialism to a Ponzi scheme. In fact, it has been the most successful anti-poverty program in the history of America, one now emulated by virtually every democracy in the world. But the rightwing billionaires hate it for several reasons. read more
Republicans and their morbidly rich donors have hated Social Security ever since it was first created in 1935.
They've called it everything from communism to socialism to a Ponzi scheme. In fact, it has been the most successful anti-poverty program in the history of America, one now emulated by virtually every democracy in the world.
ut the rightwing billionaires hate it for several reasons.
"The so-called endangerment finding, which followed a supreme court ruling that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases, provides the underpinning for all rules aimed at cutting the pollution that scientists have unequivocally found is worsening the climate crisis."
Despite the enormous and growing body of evidence of devastation caused by rising emissions, including trillions of dollars in economic costs, Trump has called the climate crisis a "hoax" and dismissed those concerned by its worsening impacts as "climate lunatics"."
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It's true almost 3 percent of climate scientists agree with Republicans, and only 97 percent disagree. So, as you can see, in Republican math, they are right!