Posted on 01/02/2020 1:48:49 PM PST by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump nixed nearly 100 environmental regulations during his first three years in office, effectively rolling back much of his Democratic predecessor’s environmental legacy.
The president rolled back more than 90 environmental rules and regulations, The New York Times reported in December. The NYT relied on an analysis from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and other sources to keep tabs on Trump’s numbers during his time in office.
The NYT’s list includes regulations that are officially reversed and rollbacks still in progress.
Trump has fully eliminated 25 rules designed to rein in air pollution and emissions, as well as 19 that regulate energy producers’ ability to drill and extract oil and gas. Trump uses a “one-two punch,” according to Caitlin McCoy, a fellow at Harvard Law School who tracks such measures.
“First a delay rule to buy some time, and then a final substantive rule,” McCoy told The NYT.
One of Trump’s biggest accomplishments in the early going was replacing former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which required states to make deep cuts to power sector emissions. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay on the CPP’s implementation in 2016.
Obama’s rule was expected to force more coal power plants and mines to close down, costing thousands of jobs in the process. Nearly 40% of coal-fired power capacity has been retired or announced plans to retired as a result of market forces, technological change and an increase in regulations, according to some experts.
Trump promised to end what conservatives believe was Obama’s “war on coal.”
The Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a replacement plan in June, called the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which asks states to improve coal plant efficiency. Critics said...
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Way to GO PDJT!
I really appreciate President Trump stopping Obama’s War on Coal.
Keep making America Great Again!
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Finally, a President with the balls to wipe out the environmental and other regulations that the oppressive cabal of ‘rat bureaucrats have been using to strangle free enterprise and destroy our capitalist economic system. The man was sent to save us by the Almighty Himself!
I would like the United States to build some new nuclear plants.
New nuclear technology has improved quite a bit.
Zero emissions.
The only thing preventing it is excessive regulation.
yeeah
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