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Trump may reverse US climate policy but will have trouble dismantling EPA

  • Written by Sarah Anderson, Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageEPA personnel collect water samples along the Louisiana coast after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spillEric Vance, US EPA/Flickr

During the Republican primary debates, President-elect Trump threatened to gut the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying, “We are going to get rid of it in almost every form. We’re going to have...

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