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fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. in early february, he repealed a regulation that required u.s. energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments. to discuss this, let s bring in president of the nrdc, and lbs with u and also with us, the founder at ceo of the leadership council. rhea, talk about what these rollbacks will mean for the american, not just for consumers but for americans across this country. well, look. from the moment that donald trump announced during the presidential campaign that climate change was a hoax, this was clear that it was a man certainly a president that was going to take this threat seriously. wasn t going to take it seriously. this latest action is just one of a series of comprehensive assaults on environmental regulations, environmental safeguards of this country. what it means for every day people? it means that the basic
framework of environmental rules and regulations that protect our very ability to breathe clean air and drink clean water are at risk. in addition to those fundamental principles and fundamental standards that i think we all enjoy as americans, there are 6 million americans that are employed by the clean energy economy. these are real jobs, real people in real places that suddenly are being left out of this presidential set of opportunities. rhea, the white house spokesman, sean spicer, a moment ago said the president doesn t believe it is a binary choice, there, clean air, clean water, environmental protections but also coal mining jobs. i certainly don t think it is a binary choice as is evidenced by the fact that there are these 3 million jobs that are clean energy jobs out there right now with the environmental protections that we all enjoy as americans. i think the challenges that the
schultz, hank paulson, mart martinfeldstein, the former chairman of walmart, and i was the final co-author of this plan which we introduced last month. a who s who of republican leaders putting for the for the first time a concrete market-based solution which we think is the best hope for this republican party when it is ready o talk about a replacement strategy for the repeal plan that it s already putting in place. rhea, i don t want to make this a he said/she said. certainly the nrdc is not a partisan organization. but is something like ted is proposing, is that feasible from your position? well, look. i have to acknowledge and actually thank the efforts of ted and his colleagues in putting together this plan. it is actually terrifically encouraging to see a conservative republican standing up and acknowledging the fact that climate change is real and that it deserves action. the bottom line is that we need to reduce the amount of
emissions that we re releasing into the atmosphere. we need a cap, and government plays a role in establishing those caps. it s played a role in establishing all sorts of other caps on pollutions that harm our health, and our communities. there s no reason why government shouldn t continue to play that role, particularly in the largest and perhaps most existential threat of all climate change. ted halstead and rhea suh in her signature red. thank you, guys, for joining me. thank you. the president said today s order helps end his predecessor s war on coal. it is a theme that he talked about quite a bit during the campaign and earlier this month. clean coal. right? clean coal. we are preparing new executive actions to save our coal industry and to save our wonderful coal miners from continuing to be put out of work. the miners are coming back. so how realistic are the
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