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The four-year plan for America
美國的四年計劃
By Jeffrey Kluger
文/杰弗里·克魯格
Donald Trump has smashed a lot of environmental china in four years.
上任四年來，特朗普已經摔碎了許多環保瓷器。
To name a few instances: he pulled out of the 2015 Paris Agreement (a move that becomes official on July 6, 2021);
僅舉幾例：退出2015年的巴黎協定(退出將于2021年7月6日正式生效)；
loosened automotive mileage and power plant emission standards;
放寬汽車行駛里程和電廠排放標準；
and sought to eliminate the protected status of the sage grouse,
試圖取消艾草榛雞的保護地位，
opening up 9 million acres to oil and gas extraction.
開放900萬英畝土地用于石油和天然氣開采等。
Reasonable minds may differ on the wisdom of any one of those moves,
心智健全之人對上述所有舉措可能都有異議，
but no one can deny the unprecedented sweep of Trump’s policies.
但沒有人能否認，特朗普的確推出了空前數量的政策。
Data from Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program
哈佛法學院環境和能源法律項目
and Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
與哥倫比亞大學薩賓氣候變化法中心的數據顯示，
show that the President has signed more than 100 administrative rules,
總統已經簽署了一百多項放松管制的行政法規、
Executive Orders and acts of deregulation, 66 of which have gone into effect.
行政命令和法案，有66項均已生效。
If presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden defeats Trump in November,
如果民主黨一方的假定總統候選人喬·拜登在11月成功擊敗特朗普，
what could he do in his own four years to undo the work of the Trump era?
那在他任期的四年內，他要如何做才能彌補特朗普時代留下的印記？
“The biggest, flashiest thing would be for Biden to stand up on day one and say the U.S. is recommitting itself to Paris,”
“對拜登來說，最大、最風光的事情應該就是上任第一天就站起來說，美國要重返《巴黎協定》，”
says Jody Freeman, director of the Harvard program.
哈佛項目主任喬迪·弗里曼說。
“We should make clear we’re going to take back the reins we’ve relinquished.”
“我們要明確表示，放棄的控制權我們要重新把它奪回來。”
It wouldn’t necessarily be easy.
此事不一定容易。
The U.S. would not simply be permitted to rejoin the agreement but would have to negotiate its way back in.
美國不會被輕易允許重返協議，重返協議需要談判。
One way to improve its chances would be for the U.S.
有一個辦法能幫助美國提高重返協議的可能性：
to present an even more ambitious green-house gas reduction target than it had before,
美國提出比之前更具抱負的溫室氣體排放目標，
says Joseph Goffman, the Harvard program’s executive director.
哈佛項目的執行主任約瑟夫·戈夫曼說。
That original target for the U.S. was a cut of 26% to 28% below 2005 level carbon emissions by 2025.
美國原本的計劃是到2025年將碳排放量縮減至比2005年的排放量還要低26%~28%。
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