Trump touts clean air and water while trying to kill air, water rules

“My administration wants to work with members in both parties … to promote clean air and clean water.”

Greens and Democrats are going to have a hard time trusting Trump for his pledge to be an environmental president. Just hours before his speech in the Capitol, he signed an executive order that marks the first step toward nixing one of the Obama administration’s most important regulations aimed at protecting the country’s rivers, streams and wetlands.

And a White House spokeswoman also confirmed in an email that Trump will move next week on another executive that would pull back on Obama’s Clean Power Plan, an Environmental Protection Agency rule aimed at cutting greenhouse gas pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Then there’s Trump’s first proposed budget for the EPA, which is expected to call for an approximately 25 percent spending cut and a 20 percent staff cut that would wipe out 3,000 jobs.