Author: Mindy Lubber / Source: Forbes
The Trump administration prizes itself on a businesslike approach to running the federal government. However, when it comes to reporting on the environmental footprint of the government’s buildings and overall operations, the administration is not taking its own advice.
President Trump just issued a new executive order that rescinds a 2015 executive order that requires federal agencies to take specific steps to tackle climate change, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2025, while regularly issuing environmental sustainability reports.The reporting requirement had been ignored by the Trump administration long before announcing this week’s new executive order. Climatewire, reported last month, that dozens of federal agencies have not released environmental sustainability reports during the Trump administration. Similar to corporate sustainability reporting, these agency reports were intended to provide a framework to track the progress of the U.S. government against its goals to increase renewable energy and reduce its carbon footprint, and drive emissions reductions among companies with which it does business. Rescinding this executive order is yet another example of how the Trump administration is out of touch with U.S. investors and corporations.
As the nation’s largest employer and consumer of energy — with a footprint that includes 360,000 buildings, 650,000 fleet vehicles, and $445 billion spent annually on goods and services — the federal government has a responsibility…
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