Imagine President Cruz On Climate: "Dystopian, Scorched Hellscape" - Salon
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President Cruz initiates oil free-for-all: “There’s literally nowhere I won’t let you drill.”
About 43 percent of oil and 25 percent of natural gas reserves are located on federal land, and Cruz is furious that not all of it is open for drilling. He wants to give states the power to lease, permit and regulate all energy development on federal lands (and waters) within their borders. The 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be opened to developers too, as would Native American land — because, he’s explained, ”it is only the federal government” that is keeping Native Americans in poverty.
President Cruz gets his Keystone revenge by pre-approving every pipeline, ever.
The decision on whether or not to approve Keystone XL will be made before President Cruz ever takes office, but getting the pipeline built, he’s said, is only the beginning of what he envisions for America. As he told the Conservative Policy Summit, “we…need to think bigger than a single pipeline.” “The Keystone saga imposed by the federal government,” his bill explains, “demonstrates the need to reform the process of approving oil and natural gas pipelines,” removing barriers to the development of all cross-border energy infrastructure. “The Canadians won’t leave the oil sands unmolested,” Cruz further explained — and he’d be loathe to miss out on the action.
President Cruz: The fracking industry knows what it’s doing and states totally have it handled.
Last week, the Obama administration finally introduced some regulations for fracking operations on federal lands — a small yet significant act, in that it could begin to hold the industry responsible for the environmental and public health impacts of fracking. Unsurprisingly, Ted Cruz doesn’t think those are at all necessary. “States have proven they can oversee hydraulic fracturing in a responsible, safe manner,” the most recent version of his bill reads, in one of its more drastic departures from reality. Any intervention from the federal government will kill the American Energy Renaissance dead.
“I couldn’t care less about some ‘international climate agreement’”: President Cruz strips EPA of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases.
Yep, this is an actual thing Cruz would like to see happen: He’d strip the EPA of its mandate, awarded to it by the Supreme Court in 2007, to regulate climate change-causing emissions — elevated quantities of which, the agency determined two years later, threaten “current and future generations.” He would, predictably enough, undo the efforts the EPA’s already undertaken to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants; in the future, any regulation that could possibly harm jobs would have to go through Congress and be signed into law by the president. Assuming, optimistically, that the world pulls itself together and agrees a climate pact in Paris at the end of this year, this would likely mean going back on whatever commitment the United States ends up making. (This wouldn’t be a problem for Cruz, of course, because in his world, the science, evidence and data all say that global warming isn’t real anyway.)
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http://www.salon.com/2015/03/27/president_ted_cruzs_dystopian_america_the_scorched_hellscape_of_a_climate_denying_white_house/
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