This executive order, cloaked in rhetoric about “energy independence” and “consumer freedom,” is a glaring light on shortsightedness and disregard for evidence. It scrapes away decades of scientifically grounded checks on pollution, silences data-driven insight by banishing the social cost of carbon, and halts programs that both spark clean-energy innovation and shield communities from the crush of environmental harm. Far from liberating families, it traps them in an outdated fossil-fuel economy that is already buckling under climate extremes, health consequences, and global competition. Rather than strengthening the nation’s real security, it sacrifices long-term well-being on the altar of corporate opportunism—an unambiguous affront to the interests of both current and future generations.
