PBS高端访谈:特朗普签署命令废除奥巴马气候政策
时间：2018-12-05 作者：英语课 分类：PBS访谈环境系列
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JUDY WOODRUFF: From the president today, the first salvo against his predecessor's climate agenda. Instead, he's launched an aggressive campaign he says will help the coal, oil and gas industries.
John Yang begins our coverage 1.
JOHN YANG: With coal miners looking on at EPA headquarters, President Trump 2 took action to undo 3 most of President Obama's climate change legacy 4.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Perhaps no single regulation threatens our miners, energy workers and companies more than this crushing attack on American industry.
JOHN YANG: He signed an executive order targeting more than a half-dozen major regulations. The biggest target? The Clean Power Plan to restrict greenhouse gas emissions 5 at coal-fired power plants, the centerpiece of Obama's global warming policies.
FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The idea of setting standards and cutting carbon pollution is not new. It's not radical 6. What is new is that, starting today, Washington is starting to catch up with the vision of the rest of the country.
特朗普签署命令废除奥巴马气候政策
JOHN YANG: It's been on hold while coal states and the energy industry challenged it in court as an unconstitutional power grab.
Today's order mandates 7 a review of the Clean Power Plan, lifts a moratorium 8 on new coal leases on federal lands, starts a review of reducing methane 9 emissions in oil and natural gas production, and launches an assessment 10 of rules governing hydraulic 11 fracturing, also called fracking, by oil and gas drillers.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump slammed the Obama administration for waging a war on coal and vowed 12 to bring back mining jobs.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Today, I'm taking bold action to follow through on that promise. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. We're going to have clean coal, really clean coal.
JOHN YANG: But coal mines have been losing jobs for many years because of a range of factors, including automation and competition from cheap natural gas.
Environmentalists warned that the president's action raise questions about whether the United States can meet the obligations under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
In a statement, the head of the Sierra Club said: "President Trump's sweeping 13 order is the single biggest attack on climate action in U.S. history, period." The group vowed an all-out fight.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm John Yang.
1 coverage
n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
2 trump
n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭
- He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
- The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。
3 undo
vt.解开，松开；取消，撤销
- His pride will undo him some day.他的傲慢总有一天会毁了他。
- I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.我悄悄地设法解开了包裹的一角。
4 legacy
n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
5 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）
- Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
- Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
6 radical
n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
7 mandates
托管（mandate的第三人称单数形式）
- Individual mandates would require all people to purchase health insurance. 个人托管要求所有人都要购买健康保险。
- While I agree with those benefits, I'm not a supporter of mandates. 我同意上述好处，我不是授权软件的支持者。
8 moratorium
n.(行动、活动的)暂停(期)，延期偿付
- The government has called for a moratorium on weapons testing.政府已要求暂停武器试验。
- We recommended a moratorium on two particular kinds of experiments.我们建议暂禁两种特殊的实验。
9 methane
n.甲烷，沼气
- The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
- Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。
10 assessment
n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
11 hydraulic
adj.水力的；水压的，液压的；水力学的
- The boat has no fewer than five hydraulic pumps.这艘船配有不少于5个液压泵。
- A group of apprentics were operating the hydraulic press.一群学徒正在开动水压机。
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