The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, took the oath of office last Friday, just after taking office, an information page referring to the climate change was eliminated from the official website of the White House, as well as any mention of climate change and global warming.
America First-Energy Plan
This section has been replaced by another called «America First Energy Plan»(Energy Plan-America first) that warns that the Climate Action Plan and the water regulation of the United States (Waters of the US rule), are harmful to society.
These regulations that the new administration considers so "harmful" have as main goals, is to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and combat climate change in the case of the Climate Action Plan and the protection of American aquifers in the case of water regulation in the United States.
You can also read statements such as "for a long time, our energy industry has been stagnant due to burdensome regulation", due to policies such as those indicated and that Trump agrees to eliminate them considering them harmful and unnecessary.
Shale Oil and Shale Gas
As if this was not enough, the issue is compounded when he continues by saying that the Trump administration will focus on the revolution of the unconventional hydrocarbon industry as the shale oil and shale gas to create jobs and bring prosperity to millions of Americans. Both fuels in which the extraction technique is none other than the destructive and controversial «fracking«.
These last statements are dismantled by several recent studies, which indicate that the renewable energy sector provides employment more people than the oil, coal and gas industries combined in the United States.
We are before the Trump style, which has changed the refuted evidence and the scientific method for retroactive logic (deciding the results and then looking for the logic that supports them), denying what most scientists have proven during years of detailed study and work.
Reactivation of the American Coal Industry
The new website tries soften the tone with statements such as “today our energy needs must go hand in hand with a responsible stewardship of the environment. Protecting clean air and water, preserving our habits of respect for nature and conserving our reserves and natural resources will continue to be a priority ”, but at no point does he mention renewable energy. Instead of talking about them, include a plan for what they call "clean coal»(Clean coal), which is nothing other than a coal that is very rich in fossil fuel, extremely harmful to the environment.
In addition, the Trump administration "is also committed to making coal technology cleaner and resuscitating the American coal industry, which has been abused for too long." Let's not forget that coal is a fossil fuel and the new energy policies are aimed at reducing its use to the maximum in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As is well known, President Obama has been an avid defender of greenhouse gas reduction policies, among other actions, signing the Paris Agreement. With the arrival of Trump, unfortunately the prediction for climate change, his research, and mitigation in the United States is not very promising.