Donald Trump is going out of his way to abolish the EPA as a whole. Even though the EPA website will remain, climate change material has been threatened to be withdrawn or even changed. It is Trump's goal to abolish the EPA. The EPA was created in 1970 to protect human health and the environment. Trump supposedly wants to cut 10% of funding for the EPA which could eventually be detrimental to jobs in the field.
I think that this is a bunch of bogus and that Trump should not have the power to abolish something that is highly important to our country and our health. The man is a businessman and is not educated on the subject, nor should he have the right to put our lives in jeopardy. As citizens it is our right to know the problems around us and that information should not be withheld from us.
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As you know, our Earth is in a constant state of heating up- also known as climate change, and we need to put a halt on the amount of CO2 emissions that we put out into the atmosphere. Building the Keystone XL (which Trump wants to do) would release 27.4 million metric tons of carbon pollution into our atmosphere ANNUALLY. This is not the only problem of the Keystone XL. Implanting the Keystone XL would potentially (high risk of) threatening America's water, in particular the Ogallala aquifer. Clean up of the accidents that happen ( such as pipeline spills) could cost billions of dollars in repair. Not only does Trump want to give the Keystone XL a go, he also wants to advance the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In the article from livescience.com it talks about the Earth's oldest rocks on the planet.The oldest rock is 4 billion years old, however, fossils from Australia might be remains of microbial mat that extracted energy from the sun only 3.5 billion years ago.In Greenland some of the rock fossils might have had cyanobacteria generated from about 3.7 billion years ago. Elizabeth Bell from the University of California, Los Angeles questions if there was life even before this whose remnants disappeared with the planet's oldest rocks. DIfferent approaches to find Earth's earliest life suggests that oceanic hydrothermal vents might have hosted the first living things.
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