Just as I was watching the news about how President Trump’s plan to repeal health care got derailed by Congress, (hehe) a great new resource popped into my mailbox.
Published by the American Environmental Law Institute, the paper, called Regulatory Reform in the Trump Era lays out, matter of factly, everything you need to know to dispute rumours, outright lies and calculated mistruths designed, really, to prevent adoption of progressive environmental policy in Canada, or, here at home, in New Brunswick.
My quick summary of the paper’s finding is this:
- You should not believe anything he tweets
- It is way more difficult to undo a law than he says
- States (and cities) will be able to pick up any slack, anyway
- The Paris Agreement on climate change will outlive his Presidency, but CETA will not
It’s not all good news. Of course. The President could roll back recent measures (for example, regulating methane emissions and new rules for cars and trucks fuel efficiency) and try to hinder environmental protection, especially in budget allocation and cuts to science funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Arm yourself with the facts by reading the paper here.