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EPA rushing through regulations after Trump election
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/10/2016 | John Siciliano

Posted on 11/11/2016 5:38:56 AM PST by RightGeek

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is telling staff to quickly finish up the last round of regulations before President-elect Donald Trump enters the Oval Office next year.

"As I've mentioned to you before, we're running — not walking — through the finish line of President Obama's presidency," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a staff memo obtained by the Washington Examiner after Trump was declared the winner of Tuesday's election.

The agency is currently working on regulations for the oil and gas sector, and is finalizing new annual regulations for the nation's ethanol mandate and renewable fuel blending requirements. The agency is also moving rules related to implementation of its landmark Clean Power Plan for cutting carbon pollution from the nation's coal utilities to combat global warming.

The Clean Power Plan itself is currently under court review after being temporarily stayed by the Supreme Court on Feb. 9 until all judicial review has concluded. Over half the nation is opposing the climate rules along with major industry groups and the coal industry. Trump has made repealing the EPA climate plan a key part of his first 100 days in office.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhoepa; cleanpowerplan; ecoweenies; envirowhackos; epa; ginamccarthy; globalwarming
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To: RightGeek

These idiots are wasting their time. The regulations they cram through today are being undone with the stroke of a pen 60 days from now.


41 posted on 11/11/2016 5:58:59 AM PST by henkster (Clinton delenda est)
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To: Iron Munro

IIRC, EPA was created WITHOUT an enabling act from Congress.


42 posted on 11/11/2016 5:59:10 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: RummyChick
What is the governmental process to get rid of the regulations once EPA implements them?

As I understand it: The new agency heads propose changes and ram them through. Those changes can be reversals.

There's also the "guidance" to the agencies which comes from the top. For example, ICE has its own rules and regulations, but Obama has told people not to enforce them.

43 posted on 11/11/2016 5:59:31 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: RummyChick

Cut 99% of the EPA funding


44 posted on 11/11/2016 5:59:34 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
and gut the department and the admins who jammed this crap through.

Yep, it will let them identify the ideologues and ship them off to new assignments counting reindeer turds on the North Slope of Alaska.

45 posted on 11/11/2016 6:00:06 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Grams A

Have never understood why our Republican Congress has continued to allow any government agency or department to write any regulations......You can thank Woodrow Wilson for that, not Republicans. Regulations are NOT laws,per se.


46 posted on 11/11/2016 6:00:25 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: RummyChick

http://www.ibtimes.com/supreme-court-rules-against-epa-mercury-air-toxics-standards-us-coal-plants-1985841


47 posted on 11/11/2016 6:01:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: katana

Didn’t Harry Reid try to slip something into a bill or law where no matter what, it would never be allowed to be rescinded? I can’t remember the bill and it didn’t pass but do remember something about that. (Probably 6-7 years ago)


48 posted on 11/11/2016 6:01:51 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Wolfie
I’m still trying to figure out why bureaucrats are allowed to write laws.

Because Congress let them when they passed the laws that set up these bureaucratic empires, and the Supreme Court affirmed it in Chevron USA v. National Resources Defense Council. The real problem isn't the bureaucracy, its the Congress that created it. Congress has the same power to tear it all down if they wish, and a Trump appointed Supreme Court will not stand in their way.

49 posted on 11/11/2016 6:01:58 AM PST by henkster (Clinton delenda est)
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To: RightGeek

Trump’s new guy will rectify that....as Barney Fife would say, “Nip it in the bud”....


50 posted on 11/11/2016 6:02:29 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: RightGeek

Make it clear to businesses that they are under no obligation to comply with regulations being forced on them after 11/08.


51 posted on 11/11/2016 6:02:41 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Sacajaweau

The epa is full of fascist leftists who condescend to the American Citizen. Fire these losers. Demand the resignations of everyone possible...and accept them that day.


52 posted on 11/11/2016 6:02:57 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: RightGeek

I hope Mr. Trump runs all those regulations right back in February then moves on to totlally dismantling EPA.


53 posted on 11/11/2016 6:03:03 AM PST by arthurus (Hillary is getting shaky)
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To: RightGeek
Typical...but they'll be rescinded soon after 1/20.
54 posted on 11/11/2016 6:04:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: umgud

Here is a thought. Don’t get rid of them. Replace them. Weaponized them. Send a horde of technicians and lawyers out to enforce every one of these regulations against these libtard groups. Alinsky them. Make them live by their morality.


55 posted on 11/11/2016 6:05:14 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: RightGeek

I think the process to reverse these types of regulations is to have hearings, then wait on comments, then more hearings, then eventually the EPA will make their rulings - it takes time. That’s why they’re pushing really hard to get them in place, in order to induce a recession that will be blamed on Trump. Clinton’s people did EXACTLY THAT to Bush.

So what can Trump do? Easy, announce that he has no plans to enforce any of them and that will will immediately begin the process to reverse them. With that, they’ll (hopefully) be ignored while they’re on the books, and then they’ll disappear...hence no economic disruption. Bush’s people were too dumb to come up with that strategy, Trump’s people are not that dumb.


56 posted on 11/11/2016 6:05:23 AM PST by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - think AMNESTY)
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To: RummyChick

Eliminate the EPA. Let the states assume control of this nonsense. Eliminate it entirely.


57 posted on 11/11/2016 6:08:20 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: RightGeek

This is huge problem folks.

When Trump comes in and tries to reverse the regulations or executive orders, the environmentalists will go to court saying that eliminating the regulations will damage the environment. Even though these are not laws passed by Congress and are just administrative regulations, the court will usually agree.

This happened with Bush where Bill Clinton designated huge areas of land as Federal wilderness areas at the last moment. When Bush tried to reverse the orders, there were court fights and Bush lost on many of the those.

What the courts are doing is allowing the previous President to handcuff the new President. It will happen again unless Congress passes laws to undo the regulations.


58 posted on 11/11/2016 6:13:20 AM PST by Stevenc131
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To: Nailbiter

Close the EPA and salt the hole where it was so it will never regrow.

If the states see a need to pursue any of their functions, let them do so and fund it themselves.


59 posted on 11/11/2016 6:14:01 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Wolfie
I’m still trying to figure out why bureaucrats are allowed to write laws.

Because Congress (the opposite of progress) writes laws containing language supporting vague concepts like "clean air", and directs the appropriate federal agency (EPA) to create regulations to achieve that goal.

60 posted on 11/11/2016 6:15:12 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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