Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump\u2019s policies raise costs for Americans. Plus, the masterpiece that was left lying in museum storage<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Good morning. Donald Trump\u2019s statement that oil companies have made \u201ctoo much money\u201d from the Iran war has angered environmentalists<\/a>, who say his policies were designed to benefit those very corporations.<\/p>\n Americans have paid more than $78bn more at the pump since the start of the Iran war, according to a Brown University tracker. A recent analysis from the environmental advocacy group Climate Power and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal thinktank, found that Trump\u2019s policies had cost the average American family $285 more when filling up their cars.<\/p>\n What policies has Trump enacted to help the oil industry?<\/strong> Since re-entering the White House last year, he has eased dozens of restrictions and regulations on fossil fuel expansion, exempted fossil fuel producers from environmental rules, and signed an executive order last year directing the attorney general to prioritize blocking climate lawsuits targeting oil majors. Trump has also personally invested in major oil companies.<\/p>\n What did the supreme court previously rule? <\/strong>In the court\u2019s June decision, the chief justice, John Roberts, said Trump\u2019s first order violated the 14th amendment of the US constitution. \u201cCitizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights \u2013 to freely participate in our political community,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe framers of the 14th amendment extended that promise to \u2018every free-born person in this land\u2019. We keep that promise today.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Environmentalists and activists furious as Trump\u2019s policies raise costs for Americans. Plus, the masterpiece that was left lying in museum storage Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump\u2019s statement that oil companies have made \u201ctoo much money\u201d from the Iran war has angered environmentalists, who say his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}