Environmental policy under the Trump administration | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/06/2019

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00:03:43 1 Background
00:04:30 2 Appointments
00:05:20 2.1 EPA Administrator
00:09:11 2.1.1 Deputy Administrator of the EPA
00:10:44 2.2 Department of Energy
00:11:38 2.3 Department of the Interior
00:13:46 2.4 Department of Agriculture
00:14:40 2.5 Council on Environmental Quality
00:15:45 2.6 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
00:16:34 2.7 Secretary of State
00:18:08 3 Domestic energy policy
00:18:18 3.1 America First Energy Plan
00:22:24 3.1.1 Renewable energy policy
00:23:24 3.2 Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline
00:25:15 3.3 Executive order on climate change
00:26:24 3.4 Auto fuel economy  and emissions standards
00:28:53 4 Proposed EPA budget cuts
00:32:40 5 Department of the Interior
00:34:42 5.1 National monuments
00:37:14 5.2 Offshore drilling
00:37:51 5.3 Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling
00:39:07 5.4 Privatization of Native American reservations
00:40:16 5.5 Endangered species threat
00:43:27 5.5.1 Mexico border wall concerns
00:45:19 5.6 Regulation of hazardous chemicals
00:46:25 5.6.1 Pesticides
00:50:36 5.6.2 Lead paint standards
00:51:22 5.6.3 PFOS and PFOA study publication withheld
00:56:53 5.7 Toxic waste clean-up
00:58:04 5.8 Clean water legislation
00:58:13 5.8.1 Roll back of Obama administration regulations
00:59:17 5.8.2 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
01:00:27 5.8.3 Clean Water Rule/Clean Water Act
01:02:33 5.9 Clean Air Act standards
01:03:21 5.10 Coal emission standards
01:04:14 5.11 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
01:05:20 6 Climate change
01:09:38 6.1 Paris Climate Agreement
01:12:44 6.2 Climate Action Plan
01:13:43 6.3 Clean Power Plan
01:15:27 6.4 Carbon Monitoring System
01:16:19 6.5 2016 Methane rule
01:17:26 6.6 2018 National Climate Assessment
01:18:19 7 Lawsuits
01:20:33 8 See also



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The environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration represents a shift from the policy priorities and goals of his predecessor, Barack Obama.  While Obama's environmental agenda prioritized the reduction of carbon emissions through the use of clean renewable energy, the Trump administration has sought to increase fossil fuel use and scrap many environmental regulations which he has  referred to as impediments to business.  In July 2018, amid numerous ethics investigations, Trump's first appointment for  administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruit, resigned and he was replaced by Andrew Wheeler.
Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord.  Immediately upon his inauguration, the White House released an "America First Energy Plan", which focused on increasing combustion of fossil fuels without mentioning renewable energy. The plan would repeal many Obama policies including the Climate Action Plan, and limit the EPA's mission of protecting air and water quality.  In April 2018,  Pruitt announced plans to undo the Obama administration's auto fuel efficiency and emissions standards.
Trump campaigned on a pledge to roll back government regulations, and within days of taking office he signed executive orders to approve two controversial oil pipelines and to require federal review of the Clean Water Rule and the Clean Power Plan.  Trump is calling for more drilling in national parks and has announced plans to open up more federal land for energy development.  Trump's Department of the Interior has announced plans to allow drilling in nearly all U.S. waters, the  largest expansion of offshore oil and gas leasing ever proposed. The  administration has been charged with re-writing  EPA pollution- control policies of chemicals that are known to be serious health risks to  make them more friendly to the chemical industry.  A 2018 a ...