The anti-climate efforts came swiftly then, with the administration removing several agency Climate Action Plans along with deleting information about the environment and health impacts of burning fossil fuels during its first days. In April 2017 it redirected the EPA’s climate change website to a different landing page, which by October 2018 simply gave visitors a 404 error message. And everything related to President Barack Obama’s 2015 Clean Power Plan was scrubbed from websites, including fact sheets and emissions and financial incentives calculators. Because of this experience over eight years ago, many people in the climate world like Gehrke were primed for another anti-environment push. And everyone was eager to coordinate better.
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The stubborn truth of this moment is this: Trump’s tariff wars are generating uncertainty, pockets of economic dislocation, an erosion of trust in the United States, and a more difficult environment for the provision of global public goods. They are also amplifying the risks inherent in China–U.S. competition. States might feel more resentful but they continue to operate within a security and economic order they cannot meaningfully escape. This paradoxically makes the world more dangerous, since Trump thinks he can engage in price discovery without risking major geopolitical alignment.
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