Trump reverses Obama on climate change
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
President Trump is finally fulfilling his campaign pledge to undo the Obama Clean Power Plan. It’s supposedly a boost for “Clean Coal,” but Wall Street is skeptical and environmentalists are outraged. What does the federal rollback mean for state efforts to beat Climate Change?
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| 0:00.0 | Carolinas are being swamped by these heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Florence. |
| 0:09.0 | The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate. |
| 0:13.8 | I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made. |
| 0:19.1 | Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe. |
| 0:23.4 | Last week, the Trump administration announced fulfillment of a long-awaited promise from the 2016 campaign. |
| 0:30.5 | The replacement of Barack Obama's most ambitious climate change regulations. |
| 0:36.2 | In part, it's an effort to salvage the coal industry as part of |
| 0:39.7 | the nation's power supply. Here's the EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler. These provisions will get |
| 0:45.9 | states and the private sector the regulatory certainty they need to invest in new technologies |
| 0:51.2 | that increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions. |
| 0:55.0 | That means cleaner and more affordable energy for the American public. |
| 1:00.0 | Rather than punishing U.S. production and yielding the marketplace to Chinese coal, which is what |
| 1:05.0 | the Obama Clean Power Plan did, we are leveling the playing field and encouraging innovation and technology across the |
| 1:12.1 | sector. |
| 1:13.4 | We set the gold standard for cleaner technologies here in the United States. |
| 1:18.6 | If we don't develop the next generation of clean code technologies here in the U.S., no one |
| 1:23.9 | else will. |
| 1:24.9 | The Obama administration basically froze all future clean coal technologies |
| 1:28.8 | to the detriment of millions in China and India. We want to export our cleaner energy and technology |
| 1:35.9 | so that we can improve lives while driving down emissions and air pollution worldwide. This is a path |
| 1:43.0 | to true international environmental protection. |
| 1:46.3 | Jody Freeman is a professor of environmental law at Harvard. She was legal counsel for energy |
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