With a former coal lobbyist standing on one side and a former oil lobbyist on the other, President Trump on Monday touted his record on the environment, praising his policies that experts say will actually cause more pollution and hasten the worst effects of climate change.
Trump, who has rolled back or severely curtailed more than 80 environmental regulations and removed the United States from the Paris climate change accord, gave his speech, titled "America's Environmental Leadership," on the advice of consultants to his re-election campaign, The New York Times reports. One senior White House official said internal polling shows millennials and suburban women do not like his environmental record, and the speech was an attempt to show moderates "he's being responsible."
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