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How Trump’s Shredding Green Regulations

2025/4/18
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Erin Ryan: 我认为特朗普政府正在积极推进大规模的环境放松管制，这正在危及气候和公共健康。自星期一以来，政府已经开始削弱濒危物种法案的关键部分，停止了长岛附近大型海上风力发电场的建设，取消了价值30亿美元的项目，旨在鼓励农民采用对气候友好的耕作方式，并且启动了结束拜登时代规则的进程，该规则旨在将保护工作与钻探等活动放在同等重要的地位，作为一种有效的公共土地用途。所有这些都发生在本周，这就像一场持续不断的环境灾难。特朗普政府积极推进大规模环境放松管制，对气候和公共健康造成危害，其后果已经显现。 Anya Zoledziowski: 我关注路易斯安那州Denka工厂排放致癌物氯丁二烯的情况。该工厂位于“癌症走廊”，排放的氯丁二烯含量远高于EPA安全标准，对当地居民，特别是儿童和婴儿构成严重健康风险。拜登政府曾起诉Denka工厂，旨在迫使其降低氯丁二烯排放量，但特朗普政府撤销了该诉讼。我认为特朗普政府撤销诉讼的决定是种族主义和潜在的残酷行为，因为它忽视了有色人种和低收入社区在环境污染中所遭受的不成比例的伤害。Denka工厂附近的居民以黑人为主，他们对政府撤销诉讼感到失望，但表示将继续倡导。他们正在寻求独立测量排放量的工具，并继续为自己的生命和孩子的未来而斗争。Denka工厂对政府撤销诉讼的消息没有回应，但其律师表示对结果非常满意。路易斯安那州官员称赞Denka工厂的经济效益，并表示对污染的担忧被夸大了。我认为特朗普政府撤销针对Denka工厂的诉讼只是冰山一角，其环境管制放松政策将对所有美国人造成影响，影响所有美国人的饮用水和空气质量。尽管政府撤销了诉讼，但仍有很多方法可以解决Denka工厂的污染问题，包括在地方和州一级开展工作，以及呼吁代表。

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This chapter covers the Trump administration's recent actions against environmental protection, including weakening the Endangered Species Act, halting a wind farm project, and canceling climate-friendly farming programs. These actions represent a significant setback for environmental conservation.
  • Gutting of key parts of the Endangered Species Act
  • Halting of construction on a major offshore wind farm
  • Cancellation of a $3 billion program to help farmers adopt climate-friendly practices
  • Ending of a Biden-era rule that prioritized conservation

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The Trump administration is running through our constitutional rights like a bull unleashed on the streets of Pamplona. For days now, the high-stakes back-and-forth between the administration, the courts and the Constitution over the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man has dominated headlines. But in the background, the administration is working overtime to dismantle regulations, particularly around the environment. Just since Monday, the administration got the ball rolling on gutting a key part of the Endangered Species Act, stopped construction on a major offshore wind farm, axed a $3 billion program to help farmers adopt climate-friendly practices, and kickstarted a bid to end a Biden-era rule to put conservation on par with things like drilling as a valid public land use. Crooked Climate correspondent Anya Zoledziowski looks at the fallout from an earlier anti-environmental decision from the Trump administration, to drop a Biden-era suit against a petrochemical plant in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.”

And in headlines: President Donald Trump met with Italy’s prime minister to talk trade, the Supreme Court said it would hear arguments over Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship, and a federal judge said Google has an illegal monopoly over online advertising technology.

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