Donald J. Trump entra en el cargo con un plan para deshechar la mayor parte de lo que el Presidente Obama logró en la energía y el medio ambiente.
Al jurar “cancelar” el acuerdo climático internacional de París que Obama defendió, Trump también reestructuraría las prioridades energéticas y ambientales nacionales.
Además, en sus planes Trump, quiere abrir tierras federales a la perforación de petróleo y gas y la extracción de carbón. Quiere eliminar las regulaciones que él llama innecesarias.
También rechazaría las regulaciones propuestas para controles más estrictos del metano en los taladradores domésticos. Y quiere reducir el papel de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental a una actividad mayormente consultiva y retirar el Plan de Energía Limpia, el plan propuesto por Obama de empujar a las empresas de servicios públicos hacia una reducción de las emisiones de carbono.
English Version:
Trump victory reverses U.S. energy and environmental priorities
Donald J. Trump comes into office with a plan to toss out most of what President Obama achieved on energy and the environment.
While vowing to “cancel” the international Paris climate accord Obama championed, Trump would also rearrange domestic energy and environmental priorities. He wants to open up federal lands to oil and gas drilling and coal mining. He wants to eliminate regulations he calls needless. He would scrap proposed regulations for tighter methane controls on domestic drillers. And he wants to shrink the role of the Environmental Protection Agency to a mostly advisory one and pull back the Clean Power Plan, Obama’s proposed plan to push utilities toward lower carbon emissions.
Although Trump has portrayed himself as the ultimate outsider, in putting together a transition team the New York real estate mogul has chosen veteran Washington insiders, many of them lobbyists for fossil fuel companies and skeptics about climate science.
Oil industry executives were delighted.
“It sure looks a whole lot friendlier than it would have under President Podesta … I mean President Clinton,” Stephen Brown, vice president of government relations for the oil refiner Tesoro, said, referring to John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman who views steps to slow climate change as a high priority and who led climate efforts under Obama.
Brown predicted that the Paris climate accord “will be scrapped quickly,” obstacles and “procedural hurdles” to infrastructure projects such as pipelines would be reexamined, and regulations about the social cost of carbon and other environmental impacts would be “gone.”
“The Clean Power Plan will die a slow death,” he said, adding that public lands permitting for oil and gas drilling would open up.
Only a day earlier, environmental groups had been planning to immediately press a President-elect Hillary Clinton to stick to a tough set of energy and environmental policies. Clinton had been adamant that she would follow through on the promises Obama made under the Paris climate accord, and vowed to defend and implement the Clean Power Plan and reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025, relative to 2005 levels. Yet environmental groups still believed they had to make sure she did not backslide.
Fuente: https://www.zafranet.com/2016/11/la-victoria-de-trump-invierte-las-prioridades-energeticas-y-ambientales-de-ee-uu/
