War Gives Trump Excuse to Juice Climate Crisis – The Tuesday AM Quickie (4/21/26)
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4/21: Emma and Sam are in the studio today, and their guests is Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist at The Nation.
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Today you’ll read about how Trump is using the ongoing disaster in Iran to worsen the ongoing disaster of our collapsing climate, how a small group of superfans are bankrolling Nick Fuentes, and the departure of another woman from Trump’s cabinet.
THE BIG NEWS
War Gives Trump Excuse to Juice Climate Crisis With More Drilling, Mining
As US negotiators prepare to hold a new round of peace talks (though Iran says it has no plan to attend), the Trump administration is making quiet moves to ruin the planet in other ways. Yesterday evening he invoked wartime power to increase fossil fuel production and build new energy infrastructure, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported, “to mobilise industry to increase production of coal, natural gas and petrol, as well as produce and develop power-grid infrastructure.”
His decision dumps even more taxpayer money into those industries even beyond the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s authorization of $1 billion in funding to increase domestic energy production for national security. Projects that are eligible for the new money include “coal-fired power plants, refineries and facilities that manufacture gas turbines and transformers — electrical equipment that’s been subject to shortages.” White House flack Taylor Rogers said this will help Trump “fully unleash American energy dominance to protect our economic and national security.” Per Bloomberg:
On Monday, the president said coal-powered generation is necessary to provide stable electricity “to support defense installations, industrial expansion, and the high-energy demands of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.” He described the nation’s “aging and constrained electric grid infrastructure” as posing “an increasing threat to national defense,” especially given limited US capacity to produce and install transformers, high-voltage transmission components and other equipment.
Trump also labeled LNG capacity as critical to ensuring energy security for allies and emphasized that inadequate pipelines, processing, storage and export capacity “would leave the United States and its partners dangerously exposed in times of crisis.” And he declared US refining capacity central to fuel the nation’s armed forces, asserting that “without immediate federal action, United States defense capabilities will remain vulnerable to disruption.”
No mention of sustainable green energy, of course, because woke. This will be a disaster for the health of our planet and ourselves. As Geoffrey Roth, a Standing Rock Sioux descendant, told the environmental news outlet Mongabay for its coverage of this week’s UN meeting of Indigenous peoples: “You can’t separate human health from the health of the environment, or our culture, or our language.”