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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I’d rather he issued an EO disbanding that which never should have been.
Any/all ‘regulations’ to be voted upon by Congress, or voided outright (only authority to pass Law).
Companies are already acting in expectation of this.
From just last week, Arizona coal power plant NO LONGER CLOSING:
http://www.srpnet.com/newsroom/releases/021317.aspx
Boy 20 bushels per acre is amazing. Not too long ago that type of yield would have won a national prize.
My great uncle, who started corn ng in the 1920s, said that his yield had increased 16 times by 1990.
More GOOD NEWS!
Negate all OBAMA Actions! ASAP!
The Climate is doing just fine, leave it alone.
make that 200 bushels. ....sheesh
Two years ago we averaged 216 per acre.Last year was a little too dry,we made 205.
“Doesn’t seem to bother the EPA that animals and folks die in these events. “
I think with the advent of these EO’s the word “DOESN’T” S/B replaced with the word “DIDN’T!” Everything at the EPA is now past tense.
““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.”
This is way cool! This means that a complete review of the requisite “reports to Congress” for every effing regulation and guidance document from every effing Federal Agency of any stripe should be done immediately. We could not only rid ourselves of Obama$hit, but also Boosh$hit and Clinton$hit regulations and “guidance.” Now that’s serious “Winning.”
I just had my Argon/CO2 cylinder for my MIG Welder refilled. Both Argon and CO2 are naturally occurring atmospheric gasses which are obtained by the liquefaction of air, but I was obliged to pay a $9.00 hazmat fee nonetheless.
I’m passing this on to my House rep - the two Senators are worthless pieces of Democr@p (one of them is Clown Kaine) so they’re not interested in anything that will undo their little kingdom. I suspect the House Rep knows this already about the CRA, but I want to remind him that “we the people” are watching and expecting big, bold MAGA type action and lots of it.
AWESOME.
Trump is my President!
Just awesome.
Legal challenges? Screw legal challenges. Just have the GOP legislature modify the Endangered Species Act as needed so the law is less radical toward EPA abuse of power. If the States want higher standards, let them, but it is time to modify the ESA to where the Sierra Club cant sue the Afeds over every issue.
Music to my ears. God Zbless you. You made my day.
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