Scott Pruitt, Under Fire, Plans to Initiate Big Environmental Rollback

[Throttlehead]

WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is expected on Friday to send President Trump a detailed legal proposal to dramatically scale back an Obama-era regulation on water pollution, according to a senior E.P.A. official familiar with the plan. It is widely expected to be one of his agency’s most significant regulatory rollback efforts.

And, as soon as Monday, the same official said, Mr. Pruitt is expected to publish another major change: his agency’s legal proposal to gut President Barack Obama’s rule to reduce climate-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes. That proposal risks triggering a court battle with California and raises the prospect that the American car market could be split in two, with different groups of states enforcing different pollution rules.

Mr. Pruitt’s two moves come as he is dogged by allegations of legal and ethical violations and is seeking to burnish his reputation in the eyes of his boss, the president. While Mr. Pruitt has initiated the rollback of dozens of environmental rules over the past year and a half, the latest one-two push comes as he is battling allegations that he improperly used his government post to secure a job for his wife.

Goodbye clean water, who needs it.

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[M3t4tr0n]

How does Pruitt still have his job? Where is the GOPs backbone?

 

[InternetHero]

Think of the hundreds of jobs that reducing the quality of everyone's water will provide!

That was going to be my canned anti-Trump joke, and most of the time it work work.

At the same time, upon having read the article, this is complicated.

- 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water are potentially effected

- However, this was an Executive Order used to protect the tributaries and other bodies of water that flow into protected waters.

That's the kind of thing Congress was designed for, and if there is a pressing need in the republic and the problem is really so large and pressing, one that the representatives should be expected to vote on.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Think of the hundreds of jobs that reducing the quality of everyone's water will provide!

That was going to be my canned anti-Trump joke, and most of the time it work work.

At the same time, upon having read the article, this is complicated.

- 60 percent of the nation’s bodies of water are potentially effected

- However, this was an Executive Order used to protect the tributaries and other bodies of water that flow into protected waters.

That's the kind of thing Congress was designed for, and if there is a pressing need in the republic and the problem is really so large and pressing, one that the representatives should be expected to vote on.

1. The reining in of these agencies and their regulatory power is needed, which is not to say that all the regulations they enact are bad or should be undone. But in many cases the regulations they promulgate have the force of law, and the courts systematically defer to these agencies in the interpretation of laws related to their jurisdictions. That destroys a lot of the balance in our system imo. Congress needs to take more leadership and legislate these issues.

2. The article doesn't include technical details of the Obama-era regulation. It's just covering the political aspect, not that there's anything wrong with that. One of the links in the linked NY Times article led to a 2015 article that was political as well. Can anyone link to a source that provides a decent digest of the actual technical issues?

Is this a case of much needed environmental restrictions being rescinded or is this one of those cases where farmers and businesses are being strangled for the sake of extremely minor improvements? Or neither?

 

[pinger]

Pfffft clean water who needs that?

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[44nutman]

I guess Pruitt is shooting for free rooms from Lobbyist. Paying 50 bucks a night in DC was too much.

 

[Cojopi Extomino]

Solid rebuttal guys.

"Well I mean clean water is good and all, but government overreach is bad so they might as well just remove all regulations and start from scratch."

Fuck that idiotic shit. We all want clean water. We all want clean air. No other issues should take precedent over insuring the two basic elements that give us life stay clean.

If you have specific issues with the specific legislation, fine. But arguing for someone to repeal things that protect air and water, for monetary reasons? How lost are we?

 

[tonni]

How does Pruitt still have his job? Where is the GOPs backbone?

It's bent over from that huge amount of cash filling their back pockets.

 

[HomerThompson]

How does Pruitt still have his job? Where is the GOPs backbone?

They want this shit done, bruh.

Muh free markets.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Will all of Murka be like Flint Michigan?

The oligarchs there have a nefarious plan to lower the life expectancy of all the peasants there and this must be part of it.

 

[FIMN]

Clean drinking water is for libcucks BTFO drain the swamp MAGA

 

[Throttlehead]

How does Pruitt still have his job? Where is the GOPs backbone?

Backbone? They love this stuff, they have been waiting for someone to rip up the EPA. Who cares if he's crooked as well?
Why do you think Trump put him in that position, Pruitt had previously sued the EPA 14 times. Who could be better for the job...ehheh

 

[whougonnacall]

Will all of Murka be like Flint Michigan?

The oligarchs there have a nefarious plan to lower the life expectancy of all the peasants there and this must be part of it.

How dare u serf! The free market and austrian buisness cycle will magicaly make this go away....ul see !

Clean water will.....trickle down from this

 

[Gutter Chris]

Is this a case of much needed environmental restrictions being rescinded or is this one of those cases where farmers and businesses are being strangled for the sake of extremely minor improvements? Or neither?

What does your gut tell you ?

 

[Ice That Jaw]

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to repeal the clean air and water acts. Lol

But hopefully they realize a crooked republican enacted them in the first place.

 

[Andy Capp]

WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is expected on Friday to send President Trump a detailed legal proposal to dramatically scale back an Obama-era regulation on water pollution, according to a senior E.P.A. official familiar with the plan. It is widely expected to be one of his agency’s most significant regulatory rollback efforts.

And, as soon as Monday, the same official said, Mr. Pruitt is expected to publish another major change: his agency’s legal proposal to gut President Barack Obama’s rule to reduce climate-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes. That proposal risks triggering a court battle with California and raises the prospect that the American car market could be split in two, with different groups of states enforcing different pollution rules.

Mr. Pruitt’s two moves come as he is dogged by allegations of legal and ethical violations and is seeking to burnish his reputation in the eyes of his boss, the president. While Mr. Pruitt has initiated the rollback of dozens of environmental rules over the past year and a half, the latest one-two push comes as he is battling allegations that he improperly used his government post to secure a job for his wife.

Goodbye clean water, who needs it.

THE REST OF THE ARTICLE.

Where's Ripskater to tell me how he's fine with allowing big corporations to poison his children's water supply? MAGA motherfuckers!

 

[ChainFlow]

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to repeal the clean air and water acts. Lol

But hopefully they realize a crooked republican enacted them in the first place.

Yes, yes, we all sadly remember the days before the Republican Party dissolved into utter servility to the rich.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

What does your gut tell you ?

My gut tells me this is a better place for facts than for gut reaction. What does your gut tell you?

 

[curryjunkie]

How does Pruitt still have his job? Where is the GOPs backbone?

hes doing what the GOP wants, so as far as they are concerned, his job is safe until enough scandals mount up for him to resign
less regulations means more money for the industries that donate to republicans, and offer them cushy jobs when they leave politics,they may as well be crack dealers, the morality is the same.

 

[Gutter Chris]

My gut tells me this is a better place for facts than for gut reaction. What does your gut tell you?

Its funny that you dont trust your instincts

My gut tells me this isnt about some farmer not being allowed to plant his field because of some endangered muskrat and that we have already dealt with acid rain and ozone issues its why we passed such laws and acts in the first place.


I dont think repealing epa regulations is a good idea in the slightest and I think this is a gift to heavy polluting industries to help that bottom line. I think the burden of proof is also on them that that isnt what they are fixin to do

Least that is what my instincts are telling me.

What purpose do you think cutting epa regulations is going to accomplish and how it is going to be a good thing ?