El presidente Donald Trump revocó este jueves un texto que sirve de base para la lucha contra las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en Estados Unidos.

Se trata de un giro radical al que se oponen científicos y ambientalistas.

Leé también: El Parlamento de Venezuela demora el tratamiento de la amnistía a los presos políticos

Este cambio de rumbo, que muy probablemente será impugnado ante los tribunales, supone un duro golpe para la acción climática del país, el principal emisor histórico de sustancias contaminantes.

El fin a las restricciones medioambientales

El texto, conocido como “constatación de peligro” (“Endangerment finding”), establecía toda una larga lista de restricciones medioambientales, a partir del hecho de que el cambio climático, causado por la emisión de gases de efecto invernadero, era considerado una amenaza fundamental.

“Esa determinación no tenía ninguna base fáctica, ninguna en absoluto, ni base legal”, dijo Trump al anunciar su decisión en la Casa Blanca.

Esta revocación libera a la industria automovilística de aplicar herramientas estrictas en materia de emisiones de gases.

Trump y el jefe de la agencia de protección ambiental (EPA), Lee Zeldin, pusieron como ejemplo el hecho de que los autos estadounidenses apagan sus motores cada vez que frenan completamente ante un semáforo en rojo, gracias a las reglamentaciones actuales.

Leé también: Delcy Rodríguez salió al cruce de María Corina Machado: “Cuando vuelva, tendrá que responder ante Venezuela”

Ese tipo de medidas, para reducir las emisiones, y también para ahorrar energía, eran algo “odiado” por el consumidor, dijo Trump.

Esta decisión ahorrará al pueblo estadounidense 1,3 billones de dólares, según el gobierno republicano.

Qué establecía la norma aprobada bajo la presidencia de Barack Obama

El texto fue adoptado inicialmente en 2009 por la EPA, bajo la presidencia del demócrata Barack Obama.

Establece que seis gases de efecto invernadero -incluidos el dióxido de carbono y el metano- son perjudiciales para la salud y, por lo tanto, entran en el ámbito de los contaminantes regulados por la agencia federal.

Gran defensor del petróleo y el carbón, Trump ha dado marcha atrás en materia climática desde su regreso al poder en enero de 2025, multiplicando las medidas a favor de la industria de las energías fósiles.

Leé también: Dos buques de México llegaron a Cuba con más de 800 toneladas de ayuda humanitaria

Anunciada en julio, su voluntad de derogar el texto de 2009 ha suscitado la indignación de numerosos científicos y organizaciones ecologistas.

“Las pruebas científicas relativas al cambio climático provocado por el hombre y sus consecuencias eran inequívocas en 2009 y, desde entonces, se han vuelto aún más alarmantes y convincentes”, recordaron más de 1000 expertos en una carta pública.

Trump sacó además a Estados Unidos del Acuerdo de París sobre el clima.

Los estadounidenses estarán “menos seguros, menos saludables”, reaccionó el expresidente Obama.

¿Se avecina una larga batalla judicial?

A juicio del gobierno, los gases de efecto invernadero no deben tratarse como contaminantes en el sentido tradicional del término, porque sus efectos sobre la salud humana son indirectos y globales, y minimiza en gran medida el papel de las actividades humanas en el cambio climático.

El asunto podría desembocar en una larga batalla judicial, incluso con la posibilidad de llegar a la Corte Suprema.

Los climatólogos confirmaron que el año 2025 fue el tercero más cálido jamás registrado en la Tierra, y que los efectos del desajuste del clima se hacen sentir a lo largo de Estados Unidos y el resto del mundo.

A pesar de estas manifestaciones tangibles, la lucha contra los gases de efecto invernadero se ha estancado desde hace dos años en el mundo desarrollado por falta de inversiones suficientes en tecnologías bajas en carbono.

(Con información de AFP)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s book tour will take him early next month to New Hampshire, the state that’s traditionally held the nation’s first presidential primary for a century.

The Portsmouth Music Hall announced on Thursday that California’s two-term Democratic governor will present his new book, «Young Man in a Hurry,» on Thursday, at their theater on March 5.

It’s a sure bet that the stop along New Hampshire’s Seacoast will generate more buzz about Newsom’s national ambitions and the likelihood that he’ll launch a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, in the race to succeed term-limited President Donald Trump.

Newsom’s stature in his own party has soared over the past year, thanks to his very vocal and visual pushback against the president, including his viral social media trolling of Trump and his successful California push to counter the Republican congressional redistricting effort.

THE 2028 WHITE HOUSE RACE IS ALREADY UNDERWAY

«Newsom has shown an ability to stand up to Trump in a bold and highly effective manner without shying away from core democratic values,» veteran Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo told Fox News Digital.

Newsom was treated like a VIP as he held meetings and mingled with party delegates during the opening day of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) winter meeting, which was held in Los Angeles in December. And Newsom held meetings with the Democratic Party chairs from New Hampshire and Nevada, another crucial early voting state.

«We had a great discussion on a wide range of issues,» longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley told Fox News Digital.

DEMOCRATIC HEAVYWEIGHTS TURN HEADS, SPARK 2028 SPECULATION

Newsom has acknowledged that he’s mulling a presidential bid, telling CBS News last year he would «seriously consider» following the 2026 midterms and that he’d be «lying» if he said otherwise.

Newsom is one of more than a dozen Democrats viewed as potential 2028 White House contenders. And many of them have been paying visits to New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, which held the first sanctioned Democratic presidential primary in the 2024 election cycle. Newsom stopped in South Carolina last summer.

A New Hampshire-based Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely shared that he and other activists in the state for months have been receiving fundraising emails on a regular basis from some of the White House hopefuls.

«Every week I receive a dozen,» the strategist said.

VANCE AMPLIFIES HIS 2026 MESSAGE WHILE LANDING KEY 2028 BACKING

Kathy Sullivan, a former New Hampshire Democratic Party chair and former DNC committee member, told Fox News Digital that «successful candidates in New Hampshire start early here and get to know the activists. They find out what issues are important to people in New Hampshire.»

Sullivan said the early trips to New Hampshire by the potential contenders «show that they’re putting the work in to take the whole process seriously and know they need to do the hard work to win the primary.»

The California governor was last in New Hampshire in July 2024, to support then-President Joe Biden in the days after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump. Newsom was a top surrogate for Biden, and later for then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden as the party’s standard-bearer after Biden dropped his re-election run amid questions about his physical and mental durability.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a top surrogate for then-President Joe Biden, speaks with voters during a stop at a highway rest area in Hooksett, New Hampshire, on July 8, 2024. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News )

Harris, a fellow Californian who is also currently on a book tour, is also mulling a potential 2028 presidential run.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Among the other Democrats seen as possible presidential candidates are Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Wes Moore of Maryland and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan; Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut; progressive superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, another leading progressive; and two moderate Democrats, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former White House chief of staff and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Alleged members of «foreign terrorist cartel» Tren de Aragua are set to be brought back to the U.S. after their deportations in 2025 — and it could come at taxpayers’ expense.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has repeatedly butted heads with the Trump administration, ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to facilitate the return of 137 migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador in 2025, called CECOT. 

Boasberg stipulated in his ruling that the government pay for the migrants’ airfare back to the U.S., meaning taxpayers are likely footing the bill. 

Boasberg argued that it’s «unclear why Plaintiffs should bear the financial cost of their return in such an instance,» noting that, «this situation would never have arisen had the Government simply afforded Plaintiffs their constitutional rights before initially deporting them.»

FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS DEPORTED VENEZUELANS TO BE RETURNED TO US

The ruling comes as part of a nearly year-long saga, when the federal judge attempted to halt the Trump administration’s deportations of migrants to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March 2025. 

The Supreme Court ultimately allowed the Trump administration to continue using the Alien Enemies Act to carry out deportations in April, but ordered that detainees receive notice and an opportunity to challenge allegations.

Boasberg has since been wading through legal avenues with the men in El Salvador, issuing a ruling in December that the Trump administration denied them their due process. 

It is unclear how many of the men will actually take the offer and return to the U.S., with Boasberg noting that the noncitizens «would be detained upon arrival» back to the U.S. 

Similar to Boasberg’s ruling, another federal judge this month ordered the Trump administration to pay for the return of three migrant families that the judge ruled ICE unlawfully deported by a 2023 humanitarian-parole settlement. 

TRUMP ADMIN ASKS BOASBERG FOR MORE TIME TO DETAIL CECOT PLANS AFTER MADURO OUSTER

A prisoner is moved as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.  (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Thursday in response to the ruling that the illegal aliens in El Salvador were removed under proper legal authority, before taking a shot as Boasberg. 

«Nothing has changed; in addition to being in our country illegally, these aliens are foreign terrorists designated as alien enemies by the President,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital when asked about the ruling. 

TRUMP ADMIN SAYS MADURO CAPTURE REINFORCES ALIEN ENEMIES ACT REMOVALS

«They were removed under the proper legal authorities. This case is no longer about the facts or law, but about Judge Boasberg’s crusade to stop President Trump from doing the will of the American People. He has been shut down by appellate courts again and again on this case,» she continued. 

Boasberg has become a prime target for Republicans over a string of rulings tied to Trump-era policies — including the Trump administration backing a potential judicial impeachment of the judge, and other «rogue» judges, in January. 

DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin (dhs.gov)

The migrants in El Salvador were removed under The Alien Enemies Act, which is a 1798 wartime immigration law that the Trump administration invoked to deport violent gang members with alleged ties to criminal organizations, such as Tren de Aragua (TdA). 

TdA, as well as MS-13, were additionally designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the Trump administration’s State Department in February 2025. 

The administration has described those deported to the notoriously secure prison in El Salvador as «violent savages» and terrorists who pose a threat to U.S. security. 

A prisoner is moved as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.  (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

A previous analysis of 238 migrants deported to El Salvador found six faced attempted murder, assault, armed robbery, gun possession or domestic battery charges in the U.S., the Texas Tribune reported in May 2025, while 32 other deportees had been convicted in the U.S. of crimes, many of which were nonviolent, according to the outlet.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 

DHS has defended that deportees labeled «‘non-criminals» by the media are «terrorists, human rights abusers, gang members and more — they just don’t have a rap sheet in the U.S.»