"Environmental [regulation] is the biggest tool for stopping growth ... it costs much more to do things environmentally clean," Trump said in a rambling three-hour interview with Joe Rogan on October 25th, when he falsely claimed the US had "the cleanest air and cleanest water" under his watch.
"We really, really need to focus on building more power at the local, tribal, and state and regional levels - understanding that because things are going to be moving much faster this time around, we really need to ramp up," says KD Chavez, executive director of the Climate Justice Alliance.
They know what to expect after Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental regulations when he was last in office. That included repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP), a landmark rule that would have set limits to carbon pollution from power plants for the first time, had it been implemented.
The opposite is also true - delaying action on climate change comes with health risks from the soot and smog that come from burning fossil.
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