Just 10 days before Hurricane Harvey hit the coast of Texas threatening the state with massive flooding, the White House revoked Executive Order 13690, which increased standards for federal flood risk management.
In January 2015, President Obama issued an executive order requiring all federal investments involving floodplains to meet higher flood risk management standards.
The current administration and its appointees including Scott Pruitt to lead (i.e. dismantle) the EPA are doing unspeakable damage to our planet and its future viability. They act with zero regard for the environment and long term health of the globe and its billions of current and future inhabitants ALL for the immediate benefits of corporate interests.
For the time being, let's briefly address the facts and reactions to the United States being pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord. We will follow up soon with another post discussing what this means for the U.S. and for the 195 nations who signed the agreement.
The current head of the Environmental PROTECTION Agency Scott Pruitt wishes the EPA did not exist and does not believe climate change is real. Amist your fury, if you're still able to read more you'll be incensed to learn that because of Pruitt's beliefs (to put corporate interest over our globe and people), the EPA web site has been scrubbed of scientific information related to our planet and its climate.
As discussed one week ago on Smart Dissent, on Tuesday an Executive Order was signed which spits in the face of every human or other living organism in the world including billions of future ones.
An executive order is anticipated this week that will dismantle efforts of President Obama to curb the impacts of climate change and lower
The moves are intended to send an unmistakable signal to the nation and the world that Trump intends to follow through on his campaign vows to rip apart every element of .... policies to address climate change.
The budget guidelines offered by the White House last week include deep cuts to numerous important agencies and programs while proposing to pour the savings into military spending which already equals the next seven countires combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, UK, India, France, Japan).
Scott Pruitt, who has called for the dissolution of much of the agency’s authority, has been confirmed to run the Environmental Protection Agency. He is a seasoned legal opponent of the agency and will now lead Trump's publicized efforts to dismantle major regulations on climate change and clean water and "get rid" of the agency. At a time when our nation and the world would benefit from a more supported EPA, the exact opposite has occurred, an impossible pill to swallow.
After passage of HR 3293 the Republican Congress has moved one step closer to requiring all grants awarded by the National Science Foundation to meet the vague criteria of "promoting the progress of science in the United States."