Trump Sabotaging Environment As He Leaves Office

From this piece:

With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to tackle the intertwined climate and pollution crises.

Capping off nearly four years of Trump and members of his administration working to roll back over 100 environmental and public health protections in the service of corporate polluters, the new rule changes how the EPA calculates the costs and benefits of new policies on air pollution under the Clean Air Act.

The new requirements, as the Washington Post reports, “instruct the agency to weigh all the economic costs of curbing an air pollutant but disregard many of the incidental benefits that arise, such as illnesses and deaths avoided by a potential regulation. In other words, if reducing emissions from power plants also saves tens of thousands of lives each year by cutting soot, those ‘co-benefits’ should be not be counted.”

This is what anyone paying attention would have expected.  It’s obvious that Trump is driven by his passion to defame all presidents past and future, so as to lift himself up in history’s rankings of the list of the 45.  He tried his mightiest to eliminate all the progress that Obama made, and now he has Biden in his sights.

As always, the health and safety of our children doesn’t mean a goddamn thing.