I've had the radio on last few mornings and they keep doing horrifying stories about how the Trump administration is firing career scientists and replacing with idiots, or how Trump is funneling money from needed causes to his own pockets or inappropriate causes.

Like, because he's created such chaos, we are now very unaware of the broad range of his destruction of America.

Of course, MAGAts will simply say this alleged bias is why NPR must be exterminated.

Nazis!

https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/102951/replies/2700705



The Arch, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the $250 bill, the passport, etc. are not his legacy, this is:

Donald Trump's environmental policies have compromised public health and ecosystems by revoking the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, rolling back Clean Water Act protections, and rapidly expanding fossil fuel extraction on public lands. Critics and environmental organizations argue that these deregulatory measures degrade air and water quality while significantly accelerating the global climate crisis.

1. Climate and Air PollutionRevoking the Endangerment Finding: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally dismantled the 2009 legal finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health, effectively eliminating the federal foundation for carbon pollution limits.

Weakening Clean Car Standards: The administration rolled back strict fuel economy mandates, which analysts warn will increase carbon emissions and worsen regional air quality.

Industrial Emission Extensions: Heavily polluting facilities, including coal-fired plants and chemical manufacturers, were granted multi-year extensions to meet toxic air safety standards.

Targeting "Super Pollutants": Rolled back regulations that mandated grocery stores and cooling companies reduce greenhouse gas leaks from commercial refrigeration units.

2. Water Quality DegradationNarrowing the Clean Water Act: Revisions to federal rules stripped protections from millions of miles of streams and roughly half of the nation's wetlands, leaving them vulnerable to agricultural and industrial runoff.

Allowing Toxic Dumping: The administration revoked restrictions that previously blocked coal companies from depositing mining debris directly into local waterways.

Extending Coal Ash Lifespans: Federal actions permitted utilities to continue operating unlined coal ash holding ponds, which carry a high risk of leaking toxic heavy metals into nearby groundwater.

Forever Chemical Rollbacks: Steps were taken to weaken federal drinking water limits on toxic PFAS "forever chemicals".

3. Public Lands and Fossil Fuel Expansion"Drill, Baby, Drill" Agenda: The administration prioritized fossil fuel production by fast-tracking liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals and deep-sea mining.

Opening Protected Landscapes: Millions of acres of public lands and ocean waters have been opened to oil and gas leasing, including reductions to Utah's national monuments and pushes to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Increasing Industrial Logging: Rules prohibiting road construction and timber harvesting across nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System were targeted for rescission, threatening critical wildlife habitats.

4. Suppression of Climate ScienceSlicing Scientific Workforce: Hundreds of climate and weather scientists at federal agencies were terminated, let go, or had their academic ties severed.

Censoring Environmental Data: The administration restricted public access to, and collection of, essential air pollution, weather, and climate tracking data.

Altering Regulatory Documents: Scientific details regarding the local health impacts of climate change were actively removed from official regulatory paperwork to justify deregulation.