Trump's EPA - formerly the Environmental Protection Agency but now the Environmental Pollution Agency - is going to eliminate regulations controlling Greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution excretions from fossil fuel power plants. Per the Washington Post:
"The Trump administration plans to repeal Biden-era rules to limit the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that drive climate change..."
The Polluter in Chief is bought and sold by the Fossil Fuel Industry. He obeys them by attacking and doing his best to destroy the green energy industries like wind and solar. And obeys them by ending regulation that limits their pollution of air, water, and land. It's all about Shareholder Value, doncha know? Shareholder Value means the top executive enrichment because back in the Greed-Is-Good Reagan '80s the CEOs and other top executives in U.S. industry tied their compensation to their stock prices. Great! I thought. What a smart idea! Good for investors, even small investors like me. Yippee!
Oops.
So, business in the U.S. dropped all concern for their workers, for their customers, for their environmental impact, for anything other than "shareholder value", meaning their own ever accelerating wealth. Yippie! for them, and their stockholders. Aren't we all so grateful?
Maybe not.
So now we have the fossil fuel industry owning the U.S. government and giving themselves full permission, no, full encouragement, no, full partnership in accelerating global warming and climate change, and full partnership in pumping filth into our water, air, and land.
Thanks Republicans. Good job! Keep those shareholders, and the billionaires, very very happy happy happy. And, oh yes, keep those campaign contributions coming and coming and coming in.
Yippee!
