Trump rolled back Obama emissions controls

This story was lost a bit during all of the criminal stuff this week but it’s big. People will die because Trump will not reduce emissions.

President Trump's coal emissions rollbacks will be bad for the country's health, experts say https://t.co/NVi1wOUfB1 pic.twitter.com/H5MqeA8Dzp

— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018

The Trump administration's rollback of the Clean Power Plan will increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and cause 1,400 premature deaths every year. What it's unlikely to do is stop the coal industry's precipitous economic decline, economists say https://t.co/O0jdN15VeF

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) August 24, 2018

JUST POSTED: The Trump E.P.A. Clean Power Plan Has a Dirty Little Secret of Sorts: It Makes it Easier for the Nation's Dirtiest Coal Plants to Keep Running (and Stay Dirty) https://t.co/m0JLW6BUkT

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 24, 2018

Even the coal industry’s shills in the Trump administration acknowledge their plan to roll back regulations on coal-burning power plants will increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400 premature deaths annually – not to mention its negative effects on the planet. https://t.co/s07J09l1pu

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 21, 2018

Trump’s rollback of emissions standards will be bad for our health

Here is an extraordinary/blunt admission from Trump-era EPA: between 470 & 1,400 people in the US will die prematurely EVERY year, starting by abt 2030, as a result of the new power plant rule the EPA is releasing today. @LFFriedman https://t.co/97udHglhOz

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 21, 2018

Also in the fine print: The Trump plan would lead to 48,000 new cases of exacerbated asthma every year https://t.co/598dSvWRNA https://t.co/CnL4VxrEf9

— Jonathan Ellis (@jonathanellis) August 21, 2018

President Trump's coal emissions rollbacks will be bad for the country's health, experts say https://t.co/NVi1wOUfB1 pic.twitter.com/H5MqeA8Dzp

— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018

Goodbye "Clean Power Plan" as Obama-era EPA called it. Trump-era EPA has renamed it. Now it is "Affordable Clean Energy rule." EPA just put out a news release, will unveil it Tuesday 10 a.m. Stay tuned to NYT. Here is a preview by @LFFriedman https://t.co/8JBPn8n062

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 20, 2018

Coal is not coming back for the same reason 35mm film is not coming back. Cheaper, cleaner, better alternatives were discovered. @realDonaldTrump scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not save the coal industry. It will just make our air and water dirtier. https://t.co/9gtnCtQcD6

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 21, 2018

JUST IN: California governor says the EPA's new coal pollution rules are a "declaration of war" against America https://t.co/c38h3btF3L pic.twitter.com/qOkV4sagj2

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 21, 2018

The other side:

A very good day for Kentucky. I applaud @realDonaldTrump for continuing to roll back and working to end the Obama war on coal. https://t.co/7Phg0z1DtT

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 21, 2018

.@realDonaldTrump promised he’d end radical Obama job-killing regulations on coal and restore American energy independence, and he’s delivering with today’s action. This means more jobs, lower prices, and a return of American strength!

— Rep. Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) August 21, 2018

Coal isn’t coming back

Coal is not coming back for the same reason 35mm film is not coming back. Cheaper, cleaner, better alternatives were discovered. @realDonaldTrump scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not save the coal industry. It will just make our air and water dirtier. https://t.co/9gtnCtQcD6

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 21, 2018

19 months into Trump's presidency there has been little improvement in the coal industry. https://t.co/1Bpjo6oES9 w @jendlouhyhc @TimLoh pic.twitter.com/C2TPoPJTSj

— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) August 21, 2018

Just a reminder that the #solar industry employs more Americans than coal, oil and gas energy generation combined. #SolarIsNow pic.twitter.com/Ma9iqPEymP

— Solar Industry (@SEIA) August 21, 2018

Zinke blames environmentalists for making California fires worse

Just more lies and misinformation from the Trump administration.

From the article linked to below: “Zinke traveled to California and visited neighborhoods destroyed by the wildfires. Throughout his trip, he claimed the wildfires had “nothing to do with climate change” and everything to do with environmentalists. According to Zinke, the “extreme” environmental groups, whom he referred to as “environmental terrorists,” are to blame for the recent wildfires. ”

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke blames environmentalists for California wildfires https://t.co/f6GfqbOK55 pic.twitter.com/ZtD0QhESgs

— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) August 14, 2018

Last week, the Trump administration blamed California’s wildfires on a lack of available water for firefighters. This week? Too many trees. https://t.co/5GMJ9Q0Why pic.twitter.com/eQvKIdCXBp

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) August 14, 2018

good news here:

Footage captured on a California police officer's body camera show how officers rescued dozens of shelter animals in the path of an approaching wildfire https://t.co/LhxEBcYka8

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 14, 2018

then there’s this:

See here for more: https://t.co/App5o6utTc

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 14, 2018

Flint water update

update 1/22/19

3 years later, no one is in jail over Flint tainted water https://t.co/kuvLcG0ZQu

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 21, 2019

"We are still in a state of public health emergency," Flint water advocate Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha tells @VanJones68 on #VanJonesShow https://t.co/uFamYOyyw3 pic.twitter.com/NtOq0XkhVM

— CNN (@CNN) August 11, 2018

Flint water crisis timeline

EPA violated law on a pesticide

They don’t care about public health

Appeals court rules that the EPA endangered public health by keeping the pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market https://t.co/PXgm3UUljF

— TIME (@TIME) August 10, 2018

Air pollution deniers at the EPA

For the first time, air pollution denial could become official EPA policy. https://t.co/gDjQupSsHW pic.twitter.com/D1LMWMqbG3

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) August 10, 2018

The Trump administration and asbestos

E.P.A. Staff Objected to Agency’s New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show by @LFFriedman https://t.co/g5SdEKtl51

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 10, 2018

“Cancer rates are too low,” is a decision someone in this administration reached. https://t.co/W54lpJ7FGZ

— Seth Masket (@smotus) August 7, 2018

Over 60 countries have BANNED asbestos.

Thousands die from it every year.

It puts workers at risk.

It puts communities where the products are made at risk.

It puts our environment at risk.

It should not be legal, @realDonaldTrump.pic.twitter.com/Eh54IOQFeh

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 10, 2018

Donald Trump thinks asbestos would have saved the Twin Towers https://t.co/wJuOo8DakO pic.twitter.com/voPvRVMzx3

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 9, 2018

Anti-asbestos campaigners warn that a new proposal may leave the door open to new asbestos-containing items entering the US market. https://t.co/N2T9dxH8Jy

— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 10, 2018

The Trump administration is not bringing back asbestos: https://t.co/s0t6pIl8ZL pic.twitter.com/OZADnKabjH

— Slate (@Slate) August 10, 2018

More on Trump and the California fires

Liar!

The White House can’t or won’t explain his tweets

President Trump will blame anything but climate change for the California wildfires https://t.co/jJ4beg21eJ | Analysis by Z. Byron Wolf pic.twitter.com/hYO25WxHpW

— CNN (@CNN) August 7, 2018

Fire officials to Trump: No, California didn’t worsen wildfires by dumping water into ocean https://t.co/6QTDO6I2On

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 7, 2018

https://t.co/f8FxI1pARM pic.twitter.com/IcKozYSt8u

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) August 7, 2018

Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) tells Shareblue: “The ignorance displayed by the president is a serious national crisis." https://t.co/jxf3LUQnNV

— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) August 7, 2018

Update 8/10/18:

"We have plenty of water for the firefight” — Cal Fire spokesperson

"Unequivocally, we do not have a water supply issue” — Cal Fire region battalion chief

"This is gobbledygook bullshit” —California water management expert https://t.co/BsjyvYBseI https://t.co/zG64j9LNL8

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) August 8, 2018

Sequence: Trump tweets nonsense about a water shortage affecting California firefighting; California fire agency says there’s no shortage; Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross issues directive to address the nonexistent issue. https://t.co/etRpKu4N6t

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2018

The Trump Administration Is Politicizing the Tragedy of California’s Catastrophic Wildfires https://t.co/y1hmNLgXp0 pic.twitter.com/8YoO3N9i4U

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 10, 2018

Even I wouldn't have expected a link between QAnon theorists and forest fires. But here we are https://t.co/as2dgTGv9v

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 10, 2018

Trump lies about California water and fires

Trump lies about California’s water supply for firefighting. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he just wants to attack California and Democratic Governor Brown.

Trump doubles down on his previous ignorant tweet about California #water and fires. The only water that reaches the ocean these days is what's left AFTER the massive diversions OUT of our rivers for cities and farms. And there's no shortage of fire-fighting water. Nuts. https://t.co/xWFeuoKv54

— Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) August 6, 2018

Scott McLean, deputy chief for Cal Fire, tells me there's no basis, "at all," for Trump's suggestion that firefighters there are short of water: “I can reassure you we have water. There is plenty of water."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2018

How does @GOPLeader not got a byline – or at least a contribute line – on these tweets?https://t.co/q5R8x1R1FP

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 6, 2018

Donald Trump has some thoughts on fighting wildfires. They’re nonsense. https://t.co/eAcbfG98bq

— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 6, 2018

It's Sunday. That means @realDonaldTrump is lying, again. There is more than enough readily available water in CA to fight the fires.

The truth is that wildfires across the United States started increasing in the 1980s. Some of this increase is attributable to climate change. https://t.co/K0V6bKT9Go

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 6, 2018

We asked a California water expert to make sense of Donald Trump's moronic wildfire tweets https://t.co/sVjZEZNAcE pic.twitter.com/YjYJsokzke

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 6, 2018

AP fact check: Trump's claims on California wildfires are inaccurate https://t.co/4d9Ln7CM0U pic.twitter.com/HPu3AO93bq

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 7, 2018

In a tweet, Trump said "vast amounts of water" in California are "foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean." But, as we wrote in 2016, diverting fresh water prevents salt water from contaminating agricultural and urban water supplies. https://t.co/5nfV9MEWwX

— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) August 6, 2018

Fact Check: Trump's Claims On California Wildfires Are Inaccurate. @cbsladavelopez reports. https://t.co/cmIQqJTY1M pic.twitter.com/9tI1Gq3hcg

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) August 7, 2018

Trump has accused California of mismanaging water to fight the wildfires. California officials disagree. "We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires, but let’s be clear: It’s our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires." https://t.co/R6IsjZXOsz

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 7, 2018