{"id":134969,"date":"2017-10-06T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134969"},"modified":"2017-10-07T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:36:26","slug":"donald-trump-doesnt-care-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/donald-trump-doesnt-care-environment.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t care out about the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the best case scenario &#8212; the worst is that he&#8217;s actively hostile to the environment and would be completely thrilled to see the nation paved over under a blackened sky. Except for his golf courses, of course, which will remain beautiful, green, and private.<\/p>\n<p>But, honestly, I think he doesn&#8217;t much care. As long as he can profit from his businesses for the next twenty years, and get plenty of outside funding for a re-election in three years.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just the rest of us that will suffer. For decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/10\/trump-picks-coal-lobbyist-to-serve-as-epas-no-2.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/CqwBC9puFXnwLulEA8sHNcU5MWTxh5LVqtHrg-7uSGKf7iJTKRLrHwxh95SyXykcS3LDFGa3l1VxmAjZwgrbOUuRbEANAIGCb-TFRG49RF5YI3BTyjNnoB6sWoYmXqQZMujR7TqgI3VBQRKa7XEpVK0=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/10\/trump-picks-coal-lobbyist-to-serve-as-epas-no-2.html\">Trump Picks Coal Lobbyist to Serve As EPA\u2019s No. 2<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HyNDtsg3mCg\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the best case scenario &#8212; the worst is that he&#8217;s actively hostile to the environment and would be completely thrilled to see the nation paved over under a blackened sky. Except for his golf courses, of course, which will remain beautiful, green, and private. But, honestly, I think he doesn&#8217;t much care. As long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/donald-trump-doesnt-care-environment.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t care out about the environment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,131,63,358,1071],"tags":[1253,1235],"class_list":["post-134969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-energy","category-environment","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-coal","tag-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-coal-hat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132177,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/trump-names-scott-pruitt-for-epa.html","url_meta":{"origin":134969,"position":0},"title":"Trump names Scott Pruitt for EPA","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-16 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pruitt is currently Attorney General of Oklahoma. His qualifications seem to be opposition to federal environmental regulation, esp. that around climate change, and he's been a close ally of oil and gas companies (and received campaign support from them).Yeah, he's just who we need helping to Protect the Environment. 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Covering Trump the Reuters Way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133958,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/trump-administration-to-bypass-environmental-studies-for-border-wall.html","url_meta":{"origin":134969,"position":2},"title":"Trump administration to bypass environmental studies for border wall","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 7:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course they are.http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trump-borderwall-environment-idUSL1N1KC1MH\u275d The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol plans to use a 2005 anti-terror law to sidestep an environmental impact study for a section of President Donald Trump's border wall that will pass through a Texas national refuge for endangered ocelots, according to two government sources familiar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GettyImages_6010687445B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GettyImages_6010687445B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GettyImages_6010687445B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133658,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/because-of-course-trump-would-nominate-this-guy.html","url_meta":{"origin":134969,"position":3},"title":"Because of course Trump would nominate this guy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Jun-17 8:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Since if he's going to select someone to serve as the top environmental lawyer in the Justice Dept., why wouldn't Trump pick someone \"who has repeatedly challenged the scientific foundations of U.S. climate policy and was part of a legal team that represented BP in lawsuits stemming from the nation's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137714,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/25\/trump-backs-down-on-holding-the-federal-government-hostage-for-a-few-weeks.html","url_meta":{"origin":134969,"position":4},"title":"Trump backs down on holding the federal government hostage (for a few weeks)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jan-19 12:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Though I can't help thinking it's so he can come up with an even more dastardly plan. And, even if folk are again getting paid (and folk other than contractors will eventually get back pay), we're still in a \"The government is shutting down again in a few weeks\" hostage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136394,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/trump-meeting-with-automakers-about-how-to-consume-more-gasoline.html","url_meta":{"origin":134969,"position":5},"title":"Trump meeting with automakers about how to consume more gasoline","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-May-18 8:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course he is. Though to be fair, it seems that Trump's plans actually go further than even the automobile manufacturers want. They kind of seem to like being able to show increasing fuel efficiency and value for consumers. 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