Posted on 02/21/2017 6:33:56 AM PST by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump will order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin dismantling a regulation central to former President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming.
A source briefed on the matter told The Washington Post one of the orders “will instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to begin rewriting the 2015 regulation that limits greenhouse-gas emissions from existing electric utilities” and order “the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to lift a moratorium on federal coal leasing.”
Trump will issue a second order instructing the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rewrite the “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule that expanded federal control over rivers, streams and wetlands — even those on private property.
Trump is expected to issue the orders in the next week. Dismantling EPA regulations could take months and is bound to draw legal challenges. Repealing the Department of the Interior’s coal moratorium, on the other hand, could take effect immediately.
Previous media reports suggested Trump would issue executive orders dealing with Obama’s Climate Action Plan after the Senate confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head EPA. The Senate confirmed Pruitt Friday.
Obama’s Climate Action Plan aims to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, and mainly relies on EPA’s Clean Power Plan regulation to get there. The CPP limits carbon dioxide emissions and is expected to force more coal plants to prematurely shut down.
Trump’s withdrawal of the CPP, along with lifting Obama’s moratorium on new federal coal leases, marks the next step in fulfilling his campaign promise to lift the regulatory burden off the coal industry.
Trump recently signed legislation repealing the Obama administration’s Stream Protection Rule on coal mining. Congress voted to rescind the rule using the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
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My initial reaction to this:
HOORAY!!!
Somewhere, a jug-earned doofus is sobbing uncontrollably.
While I want these regs rolled back, I don’t want it done by EO. Make congress pass legislation limiting (if not eliminating) the EPA. And make the Congress review ALL regulations from all federal bureaucracies, & either approve or remove them.
Every morning is Christmas for the Trumpers and every night Halloween for the libs.
Pray America woke
My initial reaction was the same, then I immediately wondering if this was an authorized release of information.
Good. Next get the ethanol out of the gasoline.
So, who’s in charge of the clean up detail from ‘sploding envirowanker heads? Wear your hazmat suits for sure. They are infectious nasty creatures. Kinda like zombies when you think about it.
There is already a Bill before Congress to eliminate the EPA by Dec 31, 2018. The Bill however does not cover what will become of any of its regulations, etc. It is better to undo some of the damage done by the EPA using the EPA than trying to do it after the agency is eliminated.
There...fixed it
Are there not any legal challenges when they are enacted? IDK, as the media (as far as I know) never report on such things...
Same thing with stupid things like the owl and the frog and taking millions of acres off the books as lands to be developed. Many lost jobs and opportunities.
What DOES have to be done is putting access roads and fire walls through woodlands and other fire fighting tools. Doesn't seem to bother the EPA that animals and folks die in these events.
But Congress has a job....cuz they hold the enforcement purse.
Here is some GOOD news on the Congressional Review Act:
The accepted wisdom in Washington is that the CRA [Congressional Review Act] can be used only against new regulations, those finalized in the past 60 legislative days. That gets Republicans back to June, teeing up 180 rules or so for override. Included are biggies like the Interior Department’s “streams” rule, the Labor Department’s overtime-pay rule, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s methane rule.
But what Mr. Gaziano told Republicans on Wednesday was that the CRA grants them far greater powers, including the extraordinary ability to overrule regulations even back to the start of the Obama administration. The CRA also would allow the GOP to dismantle these regulations quickly, and to ensure those rules can’t come back, even under a future Democratic president. No kidding.
It turns out that the first line of the CRA requires any federal agency promulgating a rule to submit a “report” on it to the House and Senate. The 60-day clock starts either when the rule is published or when Congress receives the report—whichever comes later.
“There was always intended to be consequences if agencies didn’t deliver these reports,” Mr. Gaziano tells me. “And while some Obama agencies may have been better at sending reports, others, through incompetence or spite, likely didn’t.” Bottom line: There are rules for which there are no reports. And if the Trump administration were now to submit those reports—for rules implemented long ago—Congress would be free to vote the regulations down.
There’s more. It turns out the CRA has a[n] expansive definition of what counts as a “rule”—and it isn’t limited to those published in the Federal Register. The CRA also applies to “guidance” that agencies issue. Think the Obama administration’s controversial guidance on transgender bathrooms in schools or on Title IX and campus sexual assault. It is highly unlikely agencies submitted reports to lawmakers on these actions.
“If they haven’t reported it to Congress, it can now be challenged,” says Paul Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Larkin, also at Wednesday’s meeting, told me challenges could be leveled against any rule or guidance back to 1996, when the CRA was passed.
The best part? Once Congress overrides a rule, agencies cannot reissue it in “substantially the same form” unless specifically authorized by future legislation. The CRA can keep bad regs and guidance off the books even in future Democratic administrations—a far safer approach than if the Mr. Trump simply rescinded them. This can easily go back to 2009.
Link: http://www.trapshooters.com/threads/congressional-review-act.409889/
Thank God. CO2 + H2O + photons → [CH2O] + O2 Carbon dioxide plus water plus sun result in Food and Oxygen. As we continue to emit more Co2, global crop yields continue to set records, every year. Coincidence? I think not.
“Somewhere, a jug-earned doofus is sobbing uncontrollably”
Only if he missed a three foot putt. To think Barry gives a rat’s patoot is laughable.
Our corn crop on the farm here in northern Ohio has consistently exceeded 200 bushel per acre.20 years ago this was unachievable here.Some of the gains are from genetics but I think CO2 levels play a part too.
If it was decreed law by EO then it should repealed by EO. The precedent that EOs are not immutable laws but whimsical decrees that are easily undone needs to be established.
The only thing that should be done by EO is an undoing of something done by EO. Otherwise.
Eo’s should be used judiciously and for what they are there for.
Executive orders should be used as administrative matters and to the internal operations of federal agencies. Nothing more or less.
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