10 Reasons Trump’s Energy Plan Poses Major Climate Threats

Kathleen Corrigan | September 21, 2016

Air and water will be dirtier

Trump has made it very clear how he feels about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a government bureau he says he will eliminate almost entirely if he is elected president.

“Environmental Protection, what they do is a disgrace. Every week they come out with new regulations,” Trump stated during a 2015 Fox News interview.

The EPA, an agency that was founded in 1970 by Republican president Richard Nixon, does not in fact come up with their own regulations, but rather enforces those that have been passed by congress, such as the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. Studies have shown that since the agency’s creation, the six most common air pollutants in the U.S. have declined by 72%, an achievement that could easily be undone if the agency was dismantled.

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