When I Have Fears Part 4
Today we should be listening carefully to the scientific community. All we need today is to look around us.
Look at the fires in California driven by unprecedented wind storms. Look at the rising tides eating away at the once familiar shorelines and endangering homes perched on those shores. Look at the melting icebergs and the consequent loss of species. Polar bears basically trying to find food as they are forced roam from one ice flow to another where once they trod on solid ice.
We are clearly at the tipping point. Attention must be be paid. Anyone who cares about the future, anyone who cares about their children and grandchildren and the world that we are forcing upon them, must pay attention to climate changes.
The following weeks will be dedicated to listing Trump’s incredible moves against the United States of America and the Democracy for which we stand.
| Action | Policy Area | Specific Policy Area | Date |
| 286. Issued executive order pushing forward the Keystone/Dakota Access Pipeline. Before the end of the year, the Keystone pipeline had spilled of 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 24-Jan-2017 |
| 287. Froze new grants and contracts at the EPA | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 23-Jan-2017 |
| 288. Repealed the Extraction Payment Disclosure rule, which requires oil, gas, mining, and other extraction companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 3-Feb-2017 |
| 289. Repealed the Stream Protection Rule, which prevents coal companies from dumping their waste products into rivers and other effluenceprestea-mine | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 2-Feb-2017 |
| 290. Ordered the USDA to remove inspection reports and other animal welfare safeguards, enabling animal abuse | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 4-Feb-2017 |
| 291. Delayed listing bumblebees as endangered | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 9-Feb-2017 |
| 292. Nixed $674 million in spending to electrify California’s rail system, effectively killing hopes for a high speed rail in the state | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 17-Feb-2017 |
| 293. Gave away millions in royalties on coal extracted on public lands to coal companies | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 26-Feb-2017 |
| 294. Signed an executive order to dismantle the Clean Water Rule | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 28-Feb-2017 |
| 295. Repealed ban on lead ammunition in national parks. It’s estimated 20 million birds and other animals die of lead poisoning each year from led munitions used by hunters, even though the cost of non-lead munitions are no more expensive | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 2-Mar-2017 |
| 296. Dropped Climate Change as a factor in government decision making | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 14-Mar-2017 |
| 297. Moved to undo Obama era emissions standards | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 15-Mar-2017 |
| 298. Delayed EPA regulations addressing air quality guidelines, formaldehyde emissions stemming from composite wood products, and pesticide regulations, among other things | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 17-Mar-2017 |
| 299. Halted an anti-corruption effort in the energy sector | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 22-Mar-2017 |
| 300. Repealed rules forbidding a raft of inhumane hunting practices in wildlife refuges | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 26-Mar-2017 |
| 301. Delayed rules for humane treatment of livestock | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 25-Mar-2017 |
| 302. Revived the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste plan | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 27-Mar-2017 |
| 303. Issued executive order rolling back the Clean Power Plan and other environmental regulations | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Mar-2017 |
| 304. Reversed an Obama era environmental policy, which had blocked a large scale project to pump groundwater from the Mojave Desert | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 4-Apr-2017 |
| 305. Asked a federal appeals court to delay arguments over a rule that prevents coal-fired power plants from releasing toxic chemicals, including mercury, lead, arsenic and other pollutants, into the environment. | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 19-Apr-2017 |
| 306. In general has allowed big business a high degree of access to push for everything from allowing them to drill for oil in Russia to scrapping scientific studies on the harmful effects of pesticides, | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 20-Apr-2017 |
| 307. Preempted the implementation of a rule that would prevent coal plants from emitting mercury and polluting streams | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 20-Apr-2017 |
| 308. Signed an executive order aimed at scrapping national monuments | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 27-Apr-2017 |
| 309. Scrubbed all references to Obama era climate plans from EPA website | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Apr-2017 |
| 310. Put efforts to measure carbon emissions of cars and trucks on indefinite hold | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 19-May-2017 |
| 311. Withdrew from the Paris accord on climate change | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 1-Jun-2017 |
| 312. Authorized seismic airgun blasting off the east coast | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 5-Jun-2017 |
| 313. Abstained from the G7 climate change pledge. | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 12-Jun-2017 |
| 314. Threw out a rule to protect endangered whales and sea turtles. | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 12-Jun-2017 |
| 315. Moved to undermine the EPA’s permitting rules. | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 12-Jun-2017 |
| 316. Removed protections of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 22-Jun-2017 |
| 317. Approved a set of water tunnels which will cost water users an estimated $14 billion and devastate the ecologically sensitive Sacramento and San Jaoquin river valleysGorsuch | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 26-Jun-2017 |
| 318. Following through on item #294, moved to roll back the clean water rule | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 27-Jun-2017 |
| 319. Initiated an expansive new 5 year plan to increase offshore drilling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 3-Jul-2017 |
| 320. Began approving arctic drilling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 13-Jul-2017 |
| 321. Began the process of repealing Obama era fuel economy standards | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 26-Jul-2017 |
| 322. Began the process of repealing Obama era fracking restrictions | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 25-Jul-2017 |
| 323. Issued a 53 page report from the department of interior with plans to undermine numerous Obama era conservation policies, including undermining the Obama Administrations sage grouse conservation strategy | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 7-Aug-2017 |
| 324. Removed the white house bikeshare station | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 16-Aug-2017 |
| 325. Killed a plan to ban plastic bottles from national parks | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 15-Aug-2017 |
| 326. Watered down toxic chemical rules | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 16-Aug-2017 |
| 327. In the weeks before hurricane Harvey, reversed rules to make infrastructure more resistant to natural disasters like flooding and hurricanes | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 15-Aug-2017 |
| 328. Released his plan for public research priorities, indicating a withdrawal of government support for research in numerous fields such as climate change | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 17-Aug-2017 |
| 329. Moved to undermine emissions standard rules for cars and light trucks, as well as heavy duty trucks | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 20-Aug-2017 |
| 330. Disbanded the federal advisory panel for National Climate Assessment | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Aug-2017 |
| 331. Halted research on the public health impact of mountaintop removal coal mining | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Aug-2017 |
| 332. Moved to downsize four national monuments | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 24-Aug-2017 |
| 333. Ended an Obama era plan to strengthen houses in flood zones | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 11-Sep-2017 |
| 334. Halted pollution controls at Utah coal plants | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 11-Sep-2017 |
| 335. Moved to lift ban on oil assessments in wildlife refuges | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 15-Sep-2017 |
| 336. Refused to acknowledge the role of climate change in forest fires, and instead tried to blame “radical environmentalists” | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 1-Oct-2017 |
| 337. Moved to end rule mitigating methane emissions | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 4-Oct-2017 |
| 338. Decided to terminate the clean power plan, which was designed to reduce carbon emissions to 32% below 2005 levels by 2030 | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 9-Oct-2017 |
| 339. Took steps to delay the Portland Harbor superfund cleanup | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 9-Oct-2017 |
| 340. Barred three climate science from giving talks on climate change | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 22-Oct-2017 |
| 341. Moved to auction off vast swathes of the Gulf of Mexico to oil companies | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 24-Oct-2017 |
| 342. The Bureau of Land Management rescinded a rule requiring officials the consider climate change impact of energy projects, following up from #296 | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 25-Oct-2017 |
| 343. Opened up to 10 million acres of Alaskan wilderness to oil and gas drilling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 26-Oct-2017 |
| 344. Enacted a rule barring scientists who receive EPA funding from serving on advisory committees, removing several climate scientists from their positions and replacing them with industry-backed researchers in their place | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 1-Nov-2017 |
| 345. Delayed a rule to ensure the welfare of organic livestock | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 9-Nov-2017 |
| 346. Lifted the ban on importing hunted elephant heads | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 16-Nov-2017 |
| 347. Overruled a recommendation by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Committee that found New Jersey had exceeded its harvest limits on flounders. This is not only promotes over fishing, it also undermines the authority of a well established institution that had been helping states on the Atlantic coast coordinate their resource use for 75 years. | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 21-Nov-2017 |
| 348. Moved ahead with approving arctic oil exploration | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Nov-2017 |
| 349. Delayed the implementation of the Waters of the United States Rule, a rule aimed at protecting wetlands, while also accelerating process to repeal the law by shortening the customary period for public comment on the regulation from the customary 30 days to 21 instead | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 22-Nov-2017 |
| 350. Slashed the size of the Bears Ear and Grand Staircase National Monuments by 85% and 55% respectively | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 4-Dec-2017 |
| 351. Failed to enforce smog rules, garnering a lawsuit from 14 states | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 9-Dec-2017 |
| 352. It was reported that the Administration has slowed actions against polluters and put limits on enforcement officers at the EPA | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 10-Dec-2017 |
| 353. Delayed and effectively preempted regulations aimed at controlling methane leaks | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 8-Dec-2017 |
| 354. Moved to open the door to oil drilling of the East Coast | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 11-Dec-2017 |
| 355. Improperly withheld $91 million in funding from advanced energy research | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 13-Dec-2017 |
| 356. Killed rules to prevent animal cruelty in organic egg farming | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 15-Dec-2017 |
| 357. Opened up the Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve for drill as part of the tax bill | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 19-Dec-2017 |
| 358. Halted an independent study of offshore oil inspections | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Dec-2017 |
| 359. Officially withdrew the rule cited in #343 intended to make infrastructure more resistant to flood and severe storms. This action had previously been halted after Hurricane Harvey when it became obvious that poor infrastructure had made flooding considerably worse, however they are now once again ending the rule | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 22-Dec-2017 |
| 360. Reversed an Obama era decision not to renew the license of a copper and nickle mine that could cause serious and irreparable harm to a nearby nature preserve | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 23-Dec-2017 |
| 361. Reversed an Obama era rule by deciding not to prosecute companies that accidentally kill migratory birds | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 27-Dec-2017 |
| 362. Following up from #319, moved ahead with an expansive 5 year plan that will dramatically increase the area of offshore drilling in US coastal waters | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 4-Jan-2017 |
| 363. Struck the Canada Lynx from the endangered species list, despite a 2016 assessment that concluded the species would die out without federal protection | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 11-Jan-2017 |
| 364. Canceled a detailed study into the environmental effects of toxic metals leeching into rivers and streams, in part due to his decision to reverse the mining ban referenced in #360 | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 26-Jan-2018 |
| 366. Reversed a decades old policy under the Clean Air Act aimed at maintaining stricter pollution emissions standards on large scale producers | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 26-Jan-2018 |
| 367. Moved to ask Congress for a 72% cut in funding for clean energy research | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 31-Jan-2018 |
| 368. Threatened to scrap a conservation agreement with the state of California protecting 10.8 million acres of desert from environmentally harmful activities | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 1-Feb-2018 |
| 369. Moved to roll back environmental reviews of public land use | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 8-Feb-2018 |
| 370. Moved to slash funding for earthquake early warning programs | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Feb-2018 |
| 371. Moved to dissolve the EPA office that tests the effects of exposure to chemicals on adults and children | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 28-Feb-2018 |
| 372. Delayed implementation of methane emissions rule for two years | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 23-Feb-2018 |
| 373. Expedited plans to shrink the Grand Staircase National Monument | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 4-Mar-2018 |
| 374. Backed out of a previous commitment by refusing to ban elephant trophies | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 7-Mar-2018 |
| 375. Broke federal laws by failing to identify all the parts of the US that fail to air quality standards for smog | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 14-Mar-2018 |
| 376. Sued for failing to protect humpback whales | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 17-Mar-2018 |
| 377. Tried to sell 77 million acres of the gulf of Mexico for off shore drilling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Mar-2018 |
| 378. Sued for withdrawing animal welfare rules | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 22-Mar-2018 |
| 379. Sued for its failure to protect the Vaquita Porpoise | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 26-Mar-2018 |
| 380. Scott Pruitt’s EPA issued talking points to its employees for downplaying climate change | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Mar-2018 |
| 381. Axed Obama era fuel efficiency standards and moved to end a waiver that would allow California to set its own standards | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 2-Apr-2018 |
| 382. Sued California over a law aiming to limit a Federal land transfer | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 2-Apr-2018 |
| 383. The White House is considering a proposal that could strip protections from hundreds of threatened species, to the benefit of oil and agriculture companies. | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 5-Apr-2018 |
| 384. Following up from #361, issued an opinion instructing agents at the department of interior not to penalize companies that kill migratory birds | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 13-Apr-2018 |
| 385. Following up from #343, began the scoping process to open the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve to drilling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 19-Apr-2018 |
| 386. Trump’s EPA determined wood burning plants are carbon neutral | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 23-Apr-2018 |
| 387. Moved to roll back the Well Control Rule, aimed at preventing disastrous offshore drilling spills like the Deep Water Horizon spill | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Apr-2018 |
| 388. Sued by 17 states over his decision to invalidate emissions standards through 2025 | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 1-May-2018 |
| 389. Cancelled NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 9-May-2018 |
| 390. Hid report on toxic chemicals that contaminated drinking water in Rensselaer County | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 16-May-2018 |
| 391. Tuned out public comments on its review of the Bears Ear National Monument | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 17-May-2018 |
| 392. Sued by conservation groups over migratory bird policy | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 24-May-2018 |
| 393. Altered the way the EPA calculates costs and benefits to downplay the public benefits of environmental regulations | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 7-Jun-2018 |
| 394. Restricted the way the EPA establishes harms from environmental toxins | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 7-Jun-2018 |
| 395. Rolled back Obama era Ocean protection rules | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 21-Jun-2018 |
| 396. Created a loophole for “super polluting” trucks | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 8-Jul-2018 |
| 397. Moved to block a climate change lawsuit filed by children | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 16-Jul-2018 |
| 398. Moved to rollback protections on endangered species by making it easier to delist species and withdrawing a policy that offered the same protections to threatened species | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 19-Jul-2018 |
| 399. Curtailed the powers of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 22-Jul-2018 |
| 400. Moved to freeze fuel efficiency standards and tried to claim that higher fuel standards risk lives because they might cause people to drive more | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 2-Aug-2018 |
| 401. Overrode endangered species protections to access water California’s firefighters say they don’t need | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 8-Aug-2018 |
| 402. Moved to open 1.6 million acres to fracking, drilling in California | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 8-Aug-2018 |
| 403. Moved to sell off 1,600 acres of land that was formerly a part of the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 15-Aug-2018 |
| 404. Failed to deliver $14bn in funds for mass transit projects | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 15-Aug-2018 |
| 405. Declared conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the US, undermining decades of efforts to promote fuel efficiency and conservation | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 19-Aug-2018 |
| 406. Moved to roll back restrictions on coal fired power plants | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Aug-2018 |
| 407. Named a Climate Change denier William Happer as his adviser on emerging technologies | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 4-Sep-2018 |
| 408. Cut nearly 1,600 EPA staff in his first 18 months in office | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 8-Sep-2018 |
| 409. Eased limits on methane pollution | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 11-Sep-2018 |
| 410. Sued by New Mexico and California for their attempt to roll back Obama era methane rules in #409 | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 18-Sep-2018 |
| 411. Said the government should “work for” the oil and gas industry | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 21-Sep-2018 |
| 412. Presumed a worst case scenario on climate change and used to it to justify undermining environmental regulations under the presumption that the outcome was already unavoidable | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Sep-2018 |
| 413. Completed its rollback of safety regulations put in place after the Deepwater Horizon disaster | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 29-Sep-2018 |
| 414. Eased mercury emissions rules | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 1-Oct-2018 |
| 415. Moved to use military bases to export coal as a means to circumvent local officials who rejected private efforts to build coal ports | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 15-Oct-2018 |
| 416. Withdrew an Obama era rule on Uranium milling | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 19-Oct-2018 |
| 417. Approved offshore arctic drilling in Alaska | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 24-Oct-2018 |
| 418. Wrongly blamed “radical environmentalists” for California wildfires | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 20-Nov-2018 |
| 419. Buried a report on the devastating and accelerating impacts of climate change | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 23-Nov-2018 |
| 420. Approved harmful seismic blasting in the Atlantic | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 30-Nov-2018 |
| 421. Called for an end to subsidies for renewables and electric cars | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 3-Dec-2018 |
| 422. Refused to sign the G20 statement until they inserted language restating their decision to abandon the Paris Climate Accord | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 3-Dec-2018 |
| 423. Moved to end protections for Sage Grouse | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 6-Dec-2018 |
| 424. Moved to end requirement that new coal plants use carbon capture technology despite disastrous climate impact | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 6-Dec-2018 |
| 425. Stripped Federal protections for waterways and wetlands | Environment | Conservation and Animals | 8-Dec-2018 |
| 426. Following up from #414, moved to roll back Obama era mercury emissions regulations | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 28-Dec-2018 |
| 427. Drove a sharp increase in carbon emissions with its rollback of environmental regulations | Environment | Energy, Climate Change and Green Infrastructure | 8-Jan-2018 |
See a full list of Trump’s actions against the United States of America here
List last updated 6:40am EST, 3/19/2019