{"id":271036,"date":"2017-03-28T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=271036"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:19:14","slug":"trump-revokes-obama-climate-change-rules-declares-end-to-war-on-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/trump-revokes-obama-climate-change-rules-declares-end-to-war-on-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump revokes Obama climate change rules, declares end to \u2018war on coal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Wonderful decision against the scam of non existing man-made global warming.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has signed an executive order overruling the Obama administration rules intended to cut carbon emissions, vowing to achieve energy independence and put coal miners back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy administration is putting an end to the war on coal,\u201d\u00a0Trump said, adding that he wants to\u00a0\u201creverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made my promise and I keep my promise,\u201d\u00a0he told a delegation of coal miners assembled behind him on the stage at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), before he signed the document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ending the theft of American prosperity and rebuilding our beloved country,\u201d\u00a0he announced, to applause.<\/p>\n<p>EPA chief Scott Pruitt, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Vice President Mike Pence also spoke at the ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war on coal is over,\u201d\u00a0Pence declared.<\/p>\n<p>Zinke praised Trump\u2019s\u00a0\u201cdecisive action\u201d\u00a0on energy independence, adding that\u00a0\u201cour nation can\u2019t run on pixie dust and hope \u2013 and the last 8 years showed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump does not believe in manmade climate change, PBS reported, citing White House officials who briefed reporters on the upcoming executive measure.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s order takes aim at the Obama administration\u2019s Clean Power Plan, which placed carbon emission restrictions on coal power plants. It also lifts the moratorium on new coal exploration on federal lands, imposed by Obama in 2016, eliminates the language in federal regulations about the\u00a0\u201csocial cost\u201d\u00a0of greenhouse gases, and revokes Obama\u2019s executive orders treating climate change as a national security issue.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also intends to review regulations intended to reduce the methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, and the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s rules on hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.<\/p>\n<p>While the US is still officially party to the Paris Agreement on man-made climate change, the Trump administration is discussing the possibility of withdrawing from the treaty, according to PBS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/382609-trump-climate-change-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/382609-trump-climate-change-order\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Wonderful decision against the scam of non existing man-made global warming. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}