The Rollback: Trump's Toxic War | Fault Lines
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- Since US President Donald Trump entered the White House, there is one achievement he can’t be denied. He has made good on a campaign promise to deconstruct the administrative state, and his administration has delayed or eliminated hundreds of “job killing” federal rules, often following recommendations from powerful industries.
On March 13, the White House released its first preliminary budget under the Trump administration. Entitled A New Foundation for American Greatness, the most notable changes were severe cuts and regulatory rollbacks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The budget cuts stand at a 31 percent decrease, led by Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's former attorney general and the EPA's new chief. Pruitt's relationship with the EPA has included repeated attempts to sue the agency for items of environmental protection put in place under the Obama administration.
The items challenged by Pruitt include the EPA's carbon emissions standards for new power plants, the clean power plan designed to help curb climate change and debating limits on cross-state air pollution.
Since, under Pruitt's patronage, the EPA has reversed a proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to autism and developmental delays in children, reconsidered rules on coal ash disposal, and repealed the Obama administration’s signature plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The US has also pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, essentially breaching the promise to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Betsy Southerland was a senior official at the EPA's Office of Water for 30 years. When the Trump administration decided to roll back regulations on coal waste pollution produced by energy companies, Southerland left the agency. Within weeks of vacating her position, Scott Pruitt announced he would consider repealing a rule Southerland's team had enforced, regarding wastewater discharges from power plants.
Pruitt attributed the repeal to job loss and economic impact. "I dont know why he said that because at that point... we had never briefed him once on the rule. We could have definitely shown him in great detail that there was not going to be any big job loss or any big economic impact," says Southerland. "[It's] heartbreaking because we know that that rule was so necessary to protect public health."
In this episode of Fault Lines, we look beyond the smoke and the scandals, and travel to North Carolina and California's Central Valley, where communities have cautionary tales about what this rollback could cost.
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Every single night, I go to bed thinking Trump and his administration can't disgust me any more than it already has, but every single day, I get more disgusted by him
your fired
Just like Biden and his administration is any better, NO!!!
@@rafaelsale6364 12 million new jobs in 2 years
Wow, Al Jazeera really brings the true USA to light
The world to light; their investigative journalism is second to none
Coal plant is outdated man why we even talking about this we need more clean power energy
That's why Murray can't go far without his oxygen tank, how's that coal now?
make them eat the sludge they release in the water, make them breathe the air they release from their factories and lets see how safe they feel then
I would very much favour a law that required the president of any energy, chemical or mining company to maintain and live in (at least 250 days a year) a house constructed on the premises of that company's WORST environmental performance facility in the nation.
Don't tell us it's safe. Show us.
Unbelievable! what short term visions can lead to
blaming President Trump for racist attacks is like blaming the ocean for shark attacks,
sadly money makes for bad science electrochemical extraction could remove most of these materials at small cost and then these as a mineable resource become an asset rather than a blite.
There are ways to clean up coal residue in exhaust...cut dust commissions..iWill send it to the white House directly
Is there such a thing as clean coal? I'm seriously asking
As I continued to watch this I found the answer to my question. There is no clean coal.
You take the coal out and you clean it. Giving jobs to millions. WTF is so hard to understand about that?
yeah lets just posion the air we breath and the water we drink
Missyd 1974 No, it's a buzz term meant to mislead. The point of regulation is when companies show they are incapable of action appropriately for the preservation of the country in which they operate.
"Clean Coal" is just filtrated slightly less polluting but it's still bullshit.
Sure, it s called a Diamond.
Aljazeera stop playing with our emotions
Is coal the soul of the environment?
Need to push Solar...into the cities and towns...go solar..Harbour Freight sells panel kits U see $200/100 watts ...if on sale $150 per 100 watts kit..100 watts will charge up one deep cycle battery per day..should have 10- 20 deep cycle batteries..20 solar panel kits
To be fair, I don’t think Trump is in-depth or even knows enough with every situation. I think he just signed whatever the people around him pushing him to.
Let's home that history repeats its self with trump as it did with the Romanov family.
what a farce !
This is BS, they should be charging the residence LOTS for the additives. Mineral water!
2nd.. This isn't gonna wake lease sheep's up, we're all Lambs to the slaughter....
1st
Seriously bad journalism. Good piece, but interviews have turned into reality tv.
"when you lost everything, how did that make you feel? When you hear 'arsenic', what did that feel like?"
Horrible reporting
Kristopher Driver baited questions, sadly the reporter is digging for answers that will draw a sympathy response.
"How does that make you feel" is a psychologist/social worker question not a journalist unless properly framed as opinion.
Anyway, not having clean water is a core failing of regulation and corporations.
I have to agree about that part. But it's not just Al Jazeera: just about every news organization, corporation or independent, is now running the race to the bottom. It's all tending towards identity politics, hyperbolic reporting and simplification.