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hatrack

(59,585 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 07:42 AM Sep 2020

EPA's Wheeler - Shitstain Will Ignore Or Destroy Even More Environmental Laws If Reelected

Thanks for the confirmation, asshole.

President Donald Trump will move to weaken more environmental regulations on industries if reelected in November, while work to complete Superfund cleanup projects, according to Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler.

The Trump administration in a second term would establish a cost-benefit analysis of any new regulation and expand the use of “science transparency” in order to justify the science behind implementing new regulations, Wheeler said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. The EPA also plans to continue working on cleanup efforts at Superfund sites that have gotten delayed. “We need to make sure we are speaking to people where they live and we’re addressing the problems they see on a daily basis,” Wheeler told the Journal.

After three years in office, the Trump administration has moved to reverse more than 100 major climate and environmental rules that it has deemed burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, even as climate change accelerates and global greenhouse gas emissions rise. Analysts say many of the administration’s rollbacks could increase emissions and lead to thousands of additional deaths from bad air quality.

Among many rollbacks to rules that protect air, water and land, the administration repealed and replaced the Obama-era emissions rules for power plants and vehicles, weakened the country’s landmark environmental law, cut protections for most of the country’s wetlands and weakened regulations on methane, a potent climate-changing gas.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/epa-chief-trump-will-roll-back-more-environmental-rules-if-re-elected.html

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EPA's Wheeler - Shitstain Will Ignore Or Destroy Even More Environmental Laws If Reelected (Original Post) hatrack Sep 2020 OP
tRUMP can't be reelected since he lost the vote in 2016. It's the ratfucking that tRUMP relied abqtommy Sep 2020 #1

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. tRUMP can't be reelected since he lost the vote in 2016. It's the ratfucking that tRUMP relied
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 10:25 AM
Sep 2020

on to achieve the office of pRESIDENT. Here in 2020 and moving forward, if tRUMP ever wins a
free and fair election it'll be the very first time...

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