Real world headwinds for Trump climate change policy
By Joseph E. Aldy | November 2, 2017
It has now been 12 months since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, a man who as a candidate for the job called the scientific evidence for climate change “a hoax,” vowed to deregulate the American economy from what he considered to be onerous oversight, and bring back jobs that he claimed were lost as a result of the effort to combat the rise in global atmospheric temperatures. So, now is a good time to examine the president’s words and deeds regarding climate change – a sort of first-year job performance review or report card.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 73 Issue 6
Keywords: Trump policy, climate change, climate denial, federal regulation, year in review
Topics: Climate Change
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Joseph E. Aldy
Joseph E. Aldy is an associate professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future,... Read More
