‘Plenty of time’ to solve climate crisis, interior secretary tells representatives | Climate crisis
The United States has a “lot of time” to solve Climate crisisThe Minister of the Interior, Doug Burgoum, said the House of Representatives Committee on Tuesday.
The comment came in the first two days of the certificate of the House of Representatives and the Senate who defended it Donald TrumpThe proposed budget, called “”One big and beautiful bill“This would broaden the tax discounts that were enacted during the first period of Trump, with a reduction of $ 5 billion from the financing of the Ministry of Interior.
In addition to reducing spending on National parks,, Historical conservation, and other programming the main interior section, the budget proposal will cancel billions of dollars in infrastructure investments, environmental programs and research grants. It would also be funded by the intestine for renewable energy, including by retracting the clean tax credits of the law to reduce inflation in Joe Biden.
“This will reach” this critical sector effectively. “
“This ignores our climate change fears,” Burgum said in a session on Tuesday.
Scientists have long warned that world leaders should gradually get rid of fossil fuels and increase green technology to avoid the worst difficult consequences of the climate crisis. But Burgum said this is not the threat Trump administration anxiety.
He said: “The existential threats on which these departments focus are: Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon, and we cannot lose the race of male arms to China.” “This is the first number and the second number. If we solve these two things, we will have time to solve any problems related to a possible temperature change.”
Although Burgum reference to “potential” warming, there is a scientific consensus that the climate crisis is already reshaping global weather and ecosystems, increasing the intensity and frequency of harsh weather events, and the cost of the United States Billions of dollars per year.
During the first four months of Trump in his post, the Ministry of Interior has already witnessed huge discounts for employees, including the launch of 2,300 employees under observation and the resignation of 2,700 workers who accepted the acquisition packages.
“How can you sit there and hold someone’s feet on the fire when there is a full set of empty offices,” Republican actor Mark Ameudi asked Nivada.
Actress Benjri said she was “disappointed” from the agency changes.
“In just four months, the department was destabilized, and there was an amazing decrease in its ability to meet its mission,” said Burgum.
A happy Burgum approach to lead the Interior Department, as well as to him Fuel fuel enhancedIt sparked the anger of activists in Washington, DC. Before his testimony on Tuesday, the public citizen to defend the consumer revealed a New video Burgum’s efforts to sell public lands to the oil, gas and mining industries, which are played on a mobile advertising board that revolves outside the Capitol.
“Americans want clean air, reach nature, and a future in which public lands remain public,” said Alan Zipple, director of research to the public citizen. Instead, they get a more interested secretary to satisfy the large oil than protecting our common resources. “
