US Environmental Politics under Trump: Domestic and Global Implications
| Author | Elizabeth Bomberg |
| DOI | 10.1177/2041905820911749 |
| Published date | 01 March 2020 |
| Date | 01 March 2020 |
38POLITICAL INSIGHT•MARCH 2020
US Environmental Politics
under Trump: Domestic
and Global Implications
Donald Trump’s administration has rolled back environmental
legislation and pulled the US out of key international climate accords.
But increasingly American voters want action on the environment.
Elizabeth Bomberg reports.
US environmental politics
has long been dened by
competing visions, interests
and imperatives. In oce,
President Trump has escalated tensions
by dismantling key climate policies and
environmental protection built up over
previous decades. Trump’s record number
of regulatory roll backs has rescinded or
weakened rules designed to protect wildlife,
reduce carbon emissions, ban dangerous
pesticides, and limit pollution of waters,
land and air (Harvard University Kennedy
School 2019). The administration’s executive
action also includes stripping budgets and
resources to fund science, experts and
research.
No US president has been so enthusiastic
in his eorts to limit ‘government overreach’
in the environment while ‘freeing up’
businesses, including the most polluting
ones. These moves have had an undeniable
impact on polices that directly aect
the fate of Americans’ health and future.
The extent of Trump’s environmental roll
backs, combined with the eorts of the
administration ocials leading them – many
of whom come directly from fossil fuel
and chemical industries – suggests this
environmental dismantling will continue.
On the global level, US environmental
leadership has also suered. Trump has
formally announced the US withdrawal
from the Paris climate agreement, skipped
discussions of biodiversity and marine
conservation held at G7 summits, and
cast doubt on reports from the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. There have been few brakes
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