Respect Borders: Carbon Emissions and Protection Agency

respect borders: The U.S. is the world's second-worst polluter, behind China in volume, and the worst by more meaningful measures, like crud-per-consumer, according to The Chronicle Herald. Greenhouse gases don't respect borders, even those with walls, so if the U.S. is out, as promised by President Donald Trump, the people of the world's other 194 nation-states suffer. When Syria came aboard in November, America was the only nation on earth outside the Paris Climate Accord. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a shadow of its former self under Trump-appointed administrator Scott Pruitt, who as Oklahoma attorney general sued the EPA 14 times to overturn stuff like the regulation of toxic mercury, carbon emissions and protection of wetlands. Visionary naturalist and former Republican president Teddy Roosevelt would walk softly up to the current president and smack him with a big stick. A tidy chunk of the deregulation Trump trumpets has undone restrictions on polluters, and he intends to shrink national parks to allow mineral exploration on some of the continent's most awe-inspiring landscapes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.