Posted on 01/29/2017 10:32:23 AM PST by Kaslin
Out of all of President Trumps cabinet nominees, Scott Pruitt has probably received more heat from the Left and the environmentalist movement than anybody else. From the moment the former Oklahoma attorney generals name was floated, liberal doomsayers have been putting out warnings of an impending end to environmental protection laws.
Based on the current tone of the mainstream media and the resistance movement, you would think the government was about to start mandating coal plants in national parks. As usual, the reality is not what they make it out to be. What Scott Pruitt will really be bringing to the EPA is a badly-needed refocusing on executing this countrys laws instead of making up its own. As EPA administrator, Pruitt will be reining in an agency that has taken off in pursuit of its own agenda with hardly any oversight by elected lawmakers. Under questioning by the Senate last week, he hammered home how the agency has overreached by essentially making its own laws: EPA is an administrative agency, as he put it, not a legislative body.
Those answers are in line with the presidents America First Energy Plan, which emphasizes deregulation, energy independence, and efforts to refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water. They also speak directly to a respect for the Constitutional separation of federal and state powers that has been missing from Washington for years. To quote the transition team, one of the items on the presidential agenda is to issue an executive order barring EPA from overruling federal/state regulatory/permit decisions unless in clear violation of established law.
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“badly-needed refocusing on executing this countrys laws instead of making up its own”
That’s exactly what the Left’s panicking about.
Trump is giving the left so many things to panic about that they can’t focus.
End the EPA!
The Left's behavior is very much like that of a bratty child getting a shot - they scream bloody murder long before they ever get stuck.
The EPA is the greatest hindrance for Trump to MAGA. MAGA cannot be realized without abolishing the EPA or, at least, curtailing it.
Trump should fire all fed employees that have porn on their computers. That should drain quite a bit of the swamp.
looking at porn on the tax payers dime.
The EPA is a misled bureaucracy that specializes in shaking down big business for money and shutting down small business. When they re-apply for congressional funding every year, all they do is brag about how much money they’ve extorted from corporate America-they’re not the least bit interested in the environment, only throwing their weight around. The agency needs to be shut down.
We joke about about the county employees, when you go into talk to them about a project on your land. the first thing they say is no, that is because if they said yes, they would have to get off their ass and work, instead they say no, go back to their desk and resume porn watching.
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