{"id":1003835,"date":"2019-02-25T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003835"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:08:37","slug":"trump-denies-climate-change-while-putting-public-health-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-denies-climate-change-while-putting-public-health-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Denies Climate Change While Putting Public Health At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump continues to deny the reality of climate change, while he fills his administration with industry insiders and takes steps to undermine climate science, harm the environment and put our public health at risk.<\/p>\n

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Trump plans to create a climate panel to counter the scientific conclusion that fossil fuels harm the planet and question the severity of climate change.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe White House plans to create an ad hoc group of select federal scientists to reassess the government\u2019s analysis of climate science and counter conclusions that the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming the planet, according to three senior administration officials. The National Security Council initiative would include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem, according to these individuals, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s EPA regulator, Bill Wehrum, is \u201cdangerously close\u201d to violating federal ethics rules by working with former clients and weighing in on policy that benefits them.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cLess than a month into his tenure as the top air policy official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Bill Wehrum hopped into the EPA\u2019s electric Chevy Volt and rode to the Pennsylvania Avenue offices of his former law firm. There, he met with representatives of the nation\u2019s largest power companies \u2014 including two groups that, shortly before, had been his paying clients \u2014 to brief them on the Trump administration\u2019s plans to weaken federal environmental regulations. The Dec. 7, 2017, meeting is just one example of interactions between Wehrum, a skilled lawyer and regulator, and former clients that ethics experts say comes dangerously close to violating federal ethics rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cSince joining the EPA in November 2017, Wehrum acknowledges that he has met with two former clients at his old firm \u2014 without consulting in advance with ethics officials, even though they had cautioned him about such interactions. He also weighed in on a policy shift that could have influenced litigation involving DTE Energy, a Detroit-based utility represented by his former firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s Interior Department has given over 1,500 \u00a0safety rule waivers to offshore oil drillers.<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe Interior Department has given offshore oil drillers nearly 1,700 exemptions to Obama-era safety rules put in place after BP’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, effectively gutting parts of the regulation before the Trump administration officially rolls them back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump continues to deny the reality of climate change, while he fills his administration with industry insiders and takes steps to undermine climate science, harm the environment and put our public health at risk.   Trump plans to create a climate panel to counter the scientific conclusion that fossil fuels harm the planet and question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump Denies Climate Change While Putting Public Health At Risk - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-denies-climate-change-while-putting-public-health-at-risk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-25T21:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:08:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-denies-climate-change-while-putting-public-health-at-risk\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-denies-climate-change-while-putting-public-health-at-risk\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Denies Climate Change While Putting Public Health At Risk - 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