The Trump administration's preliminary skinny budget, released at 7 a.m. on Thursday, reduces the EPA funding from $8.2 billion to $5.7 billion and guts climate change programs across a slew of other federal agencies. .
The Yes Men then took their act global by going to the COP-15 conference in Copenhagen and throwing the world into a tizzy when they briefly pretended to be representatives of a Canada with actual guts on climate change.
Last year the IPA issued a wish list of public spending cuts including the gutting of most climate change functions across multiple government agencies.
The Bush White House goes on to silence or distort the science behind climate change, gut environmental protections, and approve a highly destructive method of coal production known as mountaintop removal.
President Obama's energy-efficiency and renewable energy efforts would be gutted, along with international climate change programs.
Their solution is to gut OPIC's environmental and climate regulations to enable them to dramatically expand oil and gas infrastructure across Africa.
In general, we've reacted well at the most obvious moments — the surge of people to airports when the Muslim ban was announced, the wicked anger when Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord and gutted DACA, most of all the collective disgust at his announcement that "fine people" were out protecting Charlottesville's Confederate icons.
According to US oil titan Exxon, governments won't have the guts to bring about stringent climate policy.
Additionally, the Heritage blueprint suggests gutting funding for the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the UN's panel on climate change.
Afterward, you published an article on the Grist homepage titled "With climate agreement, Obama guts progressive values," in which you wrote: "He blew up the United Nations.
In 2010, one of the greatest progressive victories was beating back California Proposition 23, a measure that would have gutted the state's landmark climate change bill.
