Wan?w. Energy Freedom Score Card (38% 2017) 21;:ng Eaten]; 111:: 16' reliable. and plentiful energy enables us to protect the environment while also rh I 13'] d. an goods and services we need. Expensive and unreliable energy. like the kind produced by et am an commermal and solar companies. destroys jobs and harms the environment. FOE-still tuels are the foundation of economic growth and prosperity. Taxing them or making them more scarce . - - can e? economic growth to slow. makes food and other essential goods more and many ofthe 300d things we take for granted are lostfuture generations to leave the world a better place than we found it. Renevvable energies don?t the environment. They actually harm it by being less ef?cient and more land-intensive than fossil fuels. Status Recommendation 1. Rein in EPA Repeal unnecessary regulations affecting air and water quality and energy production. end the abuse of science. end subsidies to leftist groups. DONE Withdraw implementation of the Waters of the U.S. rule. DONE Dramatically reduce government funding of environmental advocacy Pruitt announced new EPA policy groups. including funds delivered to such groups through the ?sue and to end sue and settle. settle" scam. STARTED Roll back recent EPA regulations on ozone. small particles. and other air Some regs on coal?powered pollutants that are based on discredited epidemiology and toxicology. generation have been removed or delayed. Others are up for review. STARTED End con?icts of interest on scienti?c review boards. Trump ended terms of many long- - time members of science advisory boards with con?icts of interest. STARTED Formally end the use of the "linear Ito-threshold assumption? in Pruitt?s withdrawal of the OFF said determining safe levels of exposure to pollutants. there are no health effects below standard for STARTED Roll back Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. which Trump said Obama?s preliminary result in the deaths of thousands of car and truck passengers every year, approval of higher CAF standards needlessly increase the price of new cars. and favor foreign car . will be reviewed. manufacturers. NOT DONE End the use of ?secret science? by EPA and other regulatory agencies. NOT DONE End reliance on Deaf-Zero risk ratios. NOT DONE Enforce the Data Quality Act with respect to the junk science promoted and funded by EPA on??llution and toxicology. NOT DONE Congress Should repeal the Delaney clause. which essentially commits the FDA and other EWgencies to an impossible zero risk standard 2. Repeal Global Warming Regulations 2:13:10: fuels by Withdl awmg from the Paris and the endangerment ?nding, the social cost of ower Plan. and other regulations justi?ed by global warming alamnsm. . w? . the Paris Accord and stop funding the Green Climate Fund. - . . Retract and rescind ?5061311 cost of carbon? estimates and step including them in required cost?bene?t analysis of new regulations. DONE Plan. STARTED Pruitt has announced plans for a Red Team, progress has been slow. STARTED At least some research grants are being cancelled. the president?s budget called for a 30% cut to EPA Dramatically reduce, funding of. climate change research Create a President?s men Climate Change charged with cutting through the politics and bias that infected climate science and policymakin during the Obama adminisuation and advising the President on what policies to repeal and What policies to pursue. pending the ?ndings of the new President's Council on Climate Change. When funding for such research regimes, require that equal amounts go to studying natural and man?made climate change. budget. NOT DONE Withdraw from the Framework Convention on Climate Change. NOT DONE Stop basing military planning and strategies on the predictions of ?awed climate models. NOT DONE Support legislation repealing Obama?s Executive Order 13693, which requires the Department of Defense to create a number of climate change programs and policies. NOT DONE End funding for the United Nations' biased climate change programs, in particular the Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 3. End Climate Pro?teering End subsidies, tax credits, feed-in tariffs, regulatory carve-outs, and mandates that bene?t wind, solar, and ethanol producers yet produce no environmental bene?ts. STARTED Some states have frozen renewable energy mandate targets, some have considered repealing existing mandates. but progress is slow. Repeal State Renewable Power Mandates (RPMs) where they exist and oppose their option in states that don?t currently have them. A DOE preposal to FERC would start to level the playing ?eld between coal and renewables. See footnote below. Have FERC grant?mics to coal generation to recognize the important 1'016 they Play In Provide base-load energy. STARTED Trump?s budget proposed moving ferward with Yucca Mountain STARTED Trump ?'oze current ethanol production minimum rather than raising it. Remove 1133111?me obstacles to the expansion of nuclear power and open the one ear waste Storage facility at Yucca Mountain. - Abolish the Renewable Fuels Standard (1233) program, which mandates that re?ners add ethanol to gasoline WOT DONE NOT DONE NOT DONE End federal tax credits to Wind and solar producers. We . Convmce State pugs not to Implement zombie Obama?era regulations and subsidies that lead to the premature 6105ng of coal-powered generation. Hold solar and Wind power producers to the same envzronmental protection WW natural gas power generators. 4. Use It, Don?t Lose It Achieve lienergv dominance? by maximizing U.S. production of fossil fuels. End excessive restrictions of exploration. development. and production of fossil fuels on public lands as well as private lands. DONE STARTED Some restrictions have been withdrawn. Interior is reducing size of some national monuments. Approve Keystone XL and other pipelines blocked by President Obama. Roll back unnecessary regulations on hydraulic ??dcturing, mining, and oil and gas exploration offshore and on federal lands. STARTED Trump ended an Obama?era anti? fracking rule. states are debating restrictions on fracking. Repeal unnecessary restrictions and state bans on a?'acking. STARTED Expand U.S. exports of coal. lique?ed natural gasreduce the reliance of allies and other countries on energy imports ?om Russia and other bad actors in the international community.