Photo illustration of Donald Trump, who is not literally Heather Ledger’s “Dark Knight” Joker character. Photo-Illustration: Erin O’Flynn/Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images and Warner Bros. One of the key liberal assumptions about Republican environmental policy is that it associates what’s good for industries with the public interest. One of the oddities of the Trump administration’s environmental policy is that it permits levels of pollution well beyond what business is even asking for.
The Trump administration argues such regulations are not needed, because industry has all the incentive it needs to capture the methane on its own. “Trump officials were confident the oil and gas industry had an economic incentive to limit methane because capturing it allows companies to sell more gas,” senior administration officials tell the Washington Post.
Anne Idsal, the acting assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, tells the Wall Street Journal that the issue is the principle of the thing: They don’t want to do anything about climate change. “The purpose of this rule is to get to the fundamental basis of whether [methane] should have been regulated in the first place,” she says.
The car companies are operating out of a practical understanding that since California can set its own pollution standards, it costs them more to split the market in two, producing efficient cars for the largest state in the union and gas-guzzlers for everywhere else. They have pragmatically negotiated with California, cutting Trump and his monomaniacal love of greenhouse gas emissions out of the process.
What businesses do know is that non-Trumpers aren’t going to buy their cars etc if they’re destroying the environment.
Because he is a literal walking and breathing demon given human form.
We all owe a debt of gratitude to the skeptics who have courageously disputed the global warming/climate change hoax.
China and India have a pollution problem too. why aren't they ever told to clean up their backyards?
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