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How President Trump Aims to Dismantle Environmental Protections

2025/4/16
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特朗普政府的EPA负责人: 我认为特朗普政府正在对气候变化政策发起全面的攻击，这可以用"将匕首刺入气候变化宗教的心脏"来形容。这表明了政府对气候变化问题的强硬立场以及其取消环境保护措施的决心。 Lisa Friedman: 特朗普政府正在迅速取消环境保护措施，特别是那些应对气候变化的措施。他们正在削减资金、拨款和科学研究，这使得各州在应对气候变化方面的工作变得更加重要。最新的行政命令不仅试图让联邦政府停止应对气候变化，还在寻找阻止各州采取行动的方法。该行政命令的目标是阻止州一级的气候政策，并试图阻止一些政策在州一级实施。 Ethan Elkind: 特朗普政府攻击加州的碳排放交易计划，因为该计划增加了石油行业的成本。他们缺乏合法的权力来推翻州一级的环境保护项目，因此他们试图通过激进的法律理论来实现这一目标。他们正在试图通过停止执行现有法规、使用边缘法律理论来使法规无效以及通过削弱联邦员工士气来实现其目标。 Sonia Aggarwal: 特朗普政府的裁员导致美国政府失去了宝贵的专业知识，这些专业知识对于执行基本的环境标准、保护社区免受污染以及确保可靠的电力系统至关重要。这些裁员影响了从环境部门到卫生部门甚至国防部的众多领域。 Abigail Dillen: 虽然大学和非营利组织可以填补一些空白，但联邦政府在资金、影响力和结构方面是不可替代的。各州，特别是加州，将比以往任何时候都更加重要。但那些倾听节目的每个人都必须在国会和投票箱中让人们明白，削减联邦政府的资金会产生我们无法接受的后果。各州的检察长应该继续在法庭上提起诉讼，因为政府正在做的事情是非法的。各州应该继续采取创新政策，并在受到攻击时坚决捍卫这些政策。

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The Trump administration is rolling back environmental protections at an unprecedented rate, targeting state-level climate policies and gutting environmental agencies. This includes reversing Obama-era regulations, halting research funding, and opening up federal lands for oil and gas drilling. California's climate strategy, including its cap-and-trade program, is particularly at risk.
  • Executive order aims to limit states' ability to set their own environmental rules
  • Significant cuts to research funding and environmental agencies
  • Rollbacks of greenhouse gas emission protections from power plants, automobiles, and oil and gas wells
  • Opening up federal lands for oil and gas drilling
  • Efforts to eliminate the Inflation Reduction Act

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In a sweeping executive order, Donald Trump has taken aim at efforts by states, including California, to set their own environmental policies. At risk are key components of California’s fight against climate change including its cap and trade program to control carbon emissions and efforts to promote electrical vehicles. Trump’s order is just the latest in his moves to reverse climate change policies, including halting government research funding and gutting environmental agencies. As his head of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin has said, the administration is “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We’ll talk about the impact of Trump’s approach to the environment and how California could respond.

Guests:

Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law; podcast host, Climate Break

Sonia Aggarwal, CEO, Energy Innovation - a non partisan think tank based in San Francisco that provides research and analysis on energy and climate policy; special assistant, to the President for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment in the Biden administration.

Lisa Friedman, reporter on the climate desk, New York Times

Abigail Dillen, president, Earthjustice - a public interest law group focused on the environment

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