Wake up Patsy States! Trump dumps “climate change” and creates a *Council of National Energy Dominance*
Donald Trump is not wasting time unpacking the mess. In a blockbuster sweep he’s ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately “stop work connected to climate change” and eliminate “climate-related terms” across the agency, and to the “maximum extent permitted by the law”. Homeland Security is supposed to be guarding the USA against terrorists, hackers, disasters and other threats, so this is a major refocusing exercise for an agency that was wandering in the dark trying to hold back the sea, and prevent droughts and floods with windmills and LED lights.
The DHS was set up in response to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, so it was only 22 years old, yet it had already mutated into an agency that that was “working to inform the American people about climate-related risks, including extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and drought, and to provide them with clear information about how to reduce those risks. ” In other words, it was a walking-talking scare machine to squeeze more money out of taxpayers to feed The Big Government Blob. The official webpage now has a label saying “Archived Content“.
In true Donald Trump style — stripping the climate barnacles off is not enough, and he’s set up the National Energy Dominance Council. The US doesn’t just need some energy it needs to have more energy than everyone else in the world. “We’re going to make more money than anybody’s ever made with energy,’ said Trump. The race is on. Patsies-beware: he’s thrown down the gauntlet to any leaders still talking about the end of fossil fuels.
The last time around, in 2017 Trump pulled out of Paris but didn’t “interfere with the US IPCC engagement”. This time he’s pulled the pin and blocked the State Department from sending a team to China for the next round of Paris Agreement extortion. Since the US is pulling out of the Paris agreement this would have been an entirely frivolous junket.
It’s all so exquisitely neat and bureaucratically brutal:
US: Trump ends climate work inside agency that responds to disasters
In a continuing slew of stories being generated by the Trump administration’s attempts to destroy US climate-focused policies, Bloomberg reports that “top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency”. The outlet adds: “The memo instructs senior office heads to ‘eliminate all climate change activities and the use of climate change terminology in DHS policies and programs, to the maximum extent permitted by the law’, according to the document seen by Bloomberg News.
Look at the the language — energy is now “liquid gold”:
Trump creates council for ‘energy dominance,’ boosts natural gas exports and offshore drilling
Matthew Daly, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production.
“We’re going to make more money than anybody’s ever made with energy,’’ Trump said at an event Friday in the Oval Office. The United States has “clean energy, very clean beautiful energy. We’re lucky to have it. I call it liquid gold under our feet. And we’re going to utilize it.”
The new council, to be headed by Burgum, will be granted sweeping authority over federal agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation, with a mandate to cut bureaucratic red tape, enhance private sector investments and focus on innovation instead of “totally unnecessary regulation,” Trump said.
No more junkets for climate minions, and no more juice to feed the UN:
Trump pulls US out of key global climate assessment, sources say
By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters
And no more apologies for using or producing fossil fuels. Excellent.