Thursday, September 03, 2020

Trump will roll back more environmental regulations if reelected, says EPA chief

President Donald Trump will move to weaken more environmental regulations on industries if reelected in November, while work to complete Superfund cleanup projects, according to Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler. The Trump administration in a second term would establish a cost-benefit analysis of any new regulation and expand the use of “science transparency” in order to justify the science behind implementing new regulations, Wheeler said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. The EPA also plans to continue working on cleanup efforts at Superfund sites that have gotten delayed.“We need to make sure we are speaking to people where they live and we’re addressing the problems they see on a daily basis,” Wheeler told the Journal. After three years in office, the Trump administration has moved to reverse more than 100 major climate and environmental rules that it has deemed burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, even as climate change accelerates and global greenhouse gas emissions rise. Analysts say many of the administration’s rollbacks could increase emissions and lead to thousands of additional deaths from bad air quality.  Among many rollbacks to rules that protect air, water and land, the administration repealed and replaced the Obama-era emissions rules for power plants and vehicles, weakened the country’s landmark environmental law, cut protections for most of the country’s wetlands and weakened regulations on methane, a potent climate-changing gas..Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has released a plan to put $2 trillion into green infrastructure and energy over four years to curb climate change and spur economic growth, which the Trump campaign has argued would hurt the oil and gas industry...MORE 

Can't help but notice how the CNBC writer sets this up. Everything Trump does has a negative connotation: it puts things in "reverse", it "rolls back" it "weakens", and the only thing it "increases" is something bad (emissions). Whereas what Biden proposes would "spur" something good (economic growth) and would only "curb" something that is bad (climate change).  All this in a supposedly objective news article.

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