Posted on 01/09/2020 11:10:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a plan to speed permitting for major infrastructure projects like oil pipelines, road expansions and bridges, one of the biggest deregulatory actions of the president’s tenure.
The plan, released by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), would help the administration advance big energy and infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL oil pipeline or roads, bridges and federal buildings that President Donald Trump and industry groups complained have been hampered by red tape.
“For the first time in over 40 years today we are issuing a new rule under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to completely overhaul the dysfunctional bureaucratic system that has created these massive obstructions,” Trump said at the White House on Thursday.
The proposal to update the how NEPA, the 50-year bedrock federal environmental law, is implemented is part of Trump’s broader effort to cut regulations and oversight to boost industry.
“This proposal affects virtually every significant decision made by the federal government that affects the environment,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said, adding that the NEPA reform would be the “most significant deregulatory proposal” of the Trump administration.
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About damn time. Nixon’s biggest mistake.
Are border security walls considered infrastructure?
Don’t you be messin’ with democrat graft. They may ‘peach you
There are some big ticket freight rail items in Chicago and Southern California that need addressing. There are also some big ticket passenger rail items in New York and Baltimore that need relief from environmental regulations.
“Are border security walls considered infrastructure?”
Great question. The answer is: Hell Yeah!!!
I'd say, one of Nixon's biggest mistakes. Price controls, gold standard, etc.
But seriously, I don't think people grasp the positive impact this is going to have on the economy.
I like the Presidential Hard Hat!!!
Speaking of hard hats, anyone got a link to the vid of the hard hats laughing behind the prez when Trump mentioned Fauxcahontas. Limbaugh has mentioned it, but I can’t find a clip.
I grasp the impact....exactly 0. It is a proposal. But it makes great election year eye candy and may help keep the train rolling along.
More effective are the rollbacks of previous executive orders with more executive orders and whatever that congressional process was.
Trump also needs to defund the left and start chopping every conceivable job under his direct control.
This strengthens Trump’s position when dealing with the Middle East. Should the Iranians cause oil production to be cut, this will help streamline North American replacement of lost ME production.
Somewhere in AZ, Reagan’s Interior Secretary, James Gaius Watt, is smiling.
No it is quite clear by that statement you have zero understanding of the impact
We have <5 years to get some completed. Get going!
Just this week yet another court delaying the Keystone pipeline again.
Must be reruling on grounds already ruled on in the favor
of Keystone XL. I thought the double jeopardy in the law
would throw out re litigation of the same issues.
But the legal system is letting the left use their “thousand cuts” tactics.
Can you imagine the XL and Anwar projects income streams
helping all of North America prosper from our oil resources.
I await your explanation on how a proposal has an impact.
I await your learning that the Executive Branch controls the actions of Government regulators.
Most of Govt is imposed by the Bureaucracy writing rules, not by Legislators legislating. Changing how the rule book is written has a much an immediate impact.
But I know, never try to teach the welded shut minds of the know nothing screamers around here about how their Government actually works.
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If rules were being written, or if the ruels about writing rules about writing rules were being written, then there would be an impact. But rules are not being written are they? A proposal has been made. A proposal is not rule writing.
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