During the past few weeks, Trump has appointed his staff and released his plan for his first 100 days, which has frightened many Americans for numerous reasons. Mr. Trump plans on revising and repealing many bills and legislations, including many environmental regulations that were issued during the Obama Administration and earlier. According to Trump’s 100-day plan, his administration plans on rolling back many regulations placed on natural gas companies and plans on reviving the coal industry. Obama was able to restrict carbon emissions from coal mines by passing a moratorium on coal leasing. Moreover, by passing the Clean Power Plan President Obama helped reduce carbon pollutants from power plants that posed environmental and health risks. Trump believes that these restrictions hamper competition and result in job loss.

Trump also claimed that he is in support of alternative energy sources like wind and solar energy however they are too expensive to “make tree huggers feel good about themselves.” However, there are many more benefits to alternate energy sources then just making a tree hugger happy, aside from the fact that reducing our carbon foot print increases societal welfare. According to Steve Lockhart of TCI composites, “The wind industry employs 88,000 people today, 21,000 in the manufacturing sector, over 500 factories in forty-three states, so there is tremendous employment that is generated from this industry.” The reality is that our president does not see any harm in excessive carbon emissions done by certain industries in our country which can have long term detrimental effects on our environment and our the wellbeing of the future generations.

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