Unit of Study: President
Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies
Synopsis: On Tuesday, March 28th, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would ultimately change and reverse Obama's climate change and environmental issue policies. According to President Trump, this new order will "eliminate federal overreach, restore economic freedom and allow our companies and workers to thrive, compete and succeed on a level playing field for the first time in a long time." This order will focus on domestic policies and this is very worrisome to other countries. One of Trumps biggest goal is to revive the coal industry and while addressing his new order he made a statement to the Environmental Protection Agency to go ahead and begin the process to remove the Clean Power Plan that Obama had placed while in office. The Clean Power Plan would have closed hundreds of coal-fired power plants, frozen construction of new plants and replaced them with vast new wind and solar farms. Scientist have made it clear that it is dangerous for people to change the environmental and climate change plans set in place if they want to preserve the planet for many years to come. With President Trump wanting to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, this could only make matters worse and make goals harder to achieve. Many people are worried that the Paris Agreement is eventually going to fall apart.
I think its okay that Donald Trump wants to create his own policies regarding the environment. I don't think he fully understands the affects this order can have on his own behalf and regarding other countries. An executive order is when there is a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. In this situation, President Trump was fulfilling his role as chief legislator which means he influences the making of laws. A downfall to this executive order is that one reason why it was created was because President Trump wanted to withdraw from this Paris Agreement. The withdrawal from the agreement could potentially hurt his relations with other countries. As chief diplomat, the president needs to make decisions that will keep him in ties with his allies.
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