Trump plans to cut the Interior Department and other environmental agencies if he returns to the White House.
He criticized environmental regulations, claiming they hinder business and praised his past efforts to expedite energy projects.
Trump's spokesperson blamed President Biden for damaging the American oil and gas industry, despite record production under Biden’s administration.
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“When they say that the seas will rise over the next 400 years — one-eighth of an inch, you know. Which means, basically you have a little more beachfront property, OK. Who knows?”
The Environmental Performance Index, published every two years by researchers at Yale and Columbia, found only Denmark and Britain on sustainable paths to net-zero emissions by 2050.
A new rule requires agencies to analyze the climate impacts of proposed highways, pipelines and other projects, and gives local communities more input.
The Biden administration says it will consider tougher limits on a deadly air pollutant that disproportionately affects low-income and minority communities.
