Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2019, Trump officially notified the United Nations that the US would formally withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. This is the first formal step in a one-year process.
According to news reports, the President/President-Elect will do so…again.
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations that would withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and open up western lands for drilling and mining, according to a report.Trump’s energy and environment transition team – tasked with drafting these actions – includes his former Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler, the New York Times reported on Friday.Trump, 78, pulled the US out of the Paris accord early in his first term, arguing that it was ineffective because it allows countries to voluntarily restrain their own pollution and seeks to hold the US and other industrialized countries to a higher standard.
Biden re-entered the agreement shortly after assuming office.
There are some reports that Trump is planning to relocate the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Trump also intends to install an “energy czar” in the White House to coordinate policies across agencies in an effort to cut regulations and make it easier to ramp up production of oil, gas and coal.Some people on the transition team are discussing moving the E.P.A. headquarters and its 7,000 workers out of Washington, D.C., according to multiple people involved in the discussions who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to talk about the transition.
I have thoughts:
The mainstream media is filled with reports about the “feeling of dread” among bureaucrats in the EPA and other federal agencies.
“I would say there is a general feeling of dread among everyone,” one Energy Department employee told CNN….Now they face another four years of Trump – a term that by his own account will be worse for the government workforce than his first.“We are absolutely having conversations among ourselves about whether we can stomach a round two,” an employee at the Environmental Protection Agency said.
I think many Americans are feeling joyful that bureaucrats are unhappy at this point. But, I digress.
Meanwhile, Team Biden is racing for time, trying to prevent the reversals of their inane polices….that essentially reversed all sound energy and economic policies Trump enacted in the first place.
Biden administration aides are racing to award hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and finalize environmental regulations in an effort to lock in President Biden’s climate agenda before Donald J. Trump enters the White House, said John Podesta, the president’s senior adviser on clean energy.Mr. Podesta, who also serves as Mr. Biden’s top climate diplomat, departs Sunday for United Nations-led climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. He said will try to reassure America’s allies that the clean energy transition is unstoppable and that U.S. emissions are poised to drop even with a president who denies the science of climate change.
Brace yourself for “experts” to be trotted out denouncing Trump and his advisors as being “anti-science”. The trouble is that this time, we have experienced societal-level devastation based on “science” offered by experts…and major sources of new media (X.com and podcasts) offer real platforms of free speech in which all views and policies can be discussed and debated.
As an added bonus, our new science priorities might look a little different going forward.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY