Since taking office less than two weeks ago, President Donald J. Trump has made a commitment to rebuild America’s economy, starting with a recent Executive Order authorizing the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
Predictably, liberals and their radical environmental allies have decried the order, saying that increased oil production within the United States will harm the environment and exacerbate global warming.
Well, if a former aide to President Trump is correct, his next action is likely to enrage liberal environmentalists even more than his decision to approve the pipelines.
According to Myron Ebell, who worked with the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency transition, President Trump was “determined” to reverse President Obama’s global warming agenda, and will pull out of the 2016 Paris climate agreement.
From Fox News:
“I expect Donald Trump to be very assiduous in keeping his promises, despite all of the flack he is going to get from his opponents,” Ebell said, according to London’s The Independent. “He could do it by executive order tomorrow, or he could wait and do it as part of a larger package. There are multiple ways and I have no idea of the timing.”
—
The U.S. is one of 194 countries who signed the Paris climate agreement in April 2016. The pact aimed to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.”
That’s not the only area where Trump will fight back. The president’s decision to nominate Scott Pruitt, former Attorney General of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency sends a clear signal that the administration plans to overhaul the out-of-control agency.
Liberals are so distraught over Trump rolling back the EPA, some are showing up to work openly weeping!
Pruitt has been a staunch critic of the EPA’s regulatory agenda, pledging to roll back many of the rules imposed by the agency that have harmed America’s economy. Liberals have predictably voiced their opposition to Pruitt, but he is expected to be approved by the Senate in the coming weeks.
Would you support President Trump if he decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement? Should the administration realign the priorities of the EPA? Share your thoughts below!