Trump speech to tout environment record; green groups scoff

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will claim America is “leading the world” on environmental issues in a speech on Monday aimed at touting progress in some areas while defying criticism from environmental groups who have blasted his steps to slash green regulations and back out of global efforts to fight climate change.

The planned speech has been slammed by conservation groups who noted that Trump has reversed steps to fight climate change, one of the biggest environmental challenges facing the planet. They have also criticized the administration for allowing the United States to slip on other basic measures of environmental health such as air pollution and enforcement.

“The President will deliver remarks at the White House on Monday and recognize his administration’s environmental leadership and America’s role in leading the world,” White House spokesman Judd Deere told Reuters in a statement.

Trump will be joined during the speech by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Council on Environmental Quality chief Mary Neumayr and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-environment/trump-speech-to-tout-environment-record-green-groups-scoff-idUSKCN1U31RI

[trusty elf]

1. Such a sick joke!

[Moostache]

2. We have always been at war with Eurasia...

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink"

"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’."