Environmentalists are worried about a second term for Donald Trump, who has already pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement and promised to do more to combat global warming.
"He's a real threat, certainly," Patrick Drupp, director of climate policy for the Sierra Club, tells Spectrum News.
"And I think we know what a second Trump term would look like for climate and the environment, and it's terrifying."
Trump's campaign website makes just one mention of climate change on the way to a Trump presidency, though he has said he would revisit the Paris climate agreement, which President Joe Biden had the US join in 2021, reports the New York Times.
"Trump already has a record on pretty much denying the climate crisis and repealing environmental regulations and essentially just clearing the path for fossil fuel expansion," Drupp says.
Barry Rabe, an environmental policy professor at the University of Michigan, tells the Times that he thinks Trump would use "a very aggressive use of presidential powers to reverse what has happened under Joe Biden."
Rabe says he thinks Trump would try to "take apart most of what the Biden administration or the Biden era has done," perhaps by freezing or impounding spending, "other kinds of strategies, basically to take apart most of what Read the Entire Article
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