What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1bn to his campaign - Carbon Brief
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Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House

Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House later this year. During a dinner for senior oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago club last month, Trump “vowed to immediately reverse dozens of president [Joe] Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted” if they gave him the money, according to the newspaper. One top priority for the executives, which Trump said they would get “on the first day”, was an end to the freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, the article notes.

  • xmunk
    65·
    6 months ago

    Yea… no. Trumps clearly fucking worse on the environment.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
      354·
      6 months ago

      I never claimed one is better then the other. They all suck, the system sucks and bribes (aka lobbying) is to blame

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        40·
        6 months ago

        Biden put rules in place to protect the environment. Trump will remove them. How is one not better than the other if the environment is important to you?

      • xmunk
        26·
        6 months ago

        I totally get your apathy, but when it comes to the election in November, we have a binary choice that we need to make. When it comes to the election we need to focus on factors relevant to that choice.