So, What Did Shitstain's Basket Of Bullshit 2020Environmental Executive Orders Add Up To? Not Much

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The White House pointed to a handful of environmental regulatory cuts. One "streamlined" EPA's existing regulations for gasoline, diesel and other fuels. Another EPA emergency exemption allowed the disinfectant product SurfaceWise2 to be used on airplanes in Texas.

The administration has also touted a Department of Energy rule to speed up dishwasher times and an energy efficiency rollback that the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute has long pushed for. But impacts in the environmental space were relatively minimal compared with other sectors like health care, experts said. And the June order, which aimed to speed up infrastructure permitting, may not have accomplished anything beyond what was already being done.

Brett Hartl, the government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, called the permitting order "mostly bluster." He noted Trump has issued a number of "politically motivated" executive orders so it's not surprising they haven't delivered. The agencies have already been told 12 times to go as fast as they possibly can," he said, referring to environmental review. "I'm sure some of those were already priority projects."

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Still, experts said, there was one exception: environmental enforcement. Matt Kent, a regulatory policy associate at Public Citizen, noted that the executive order gave way to an Office of Management and Budget memo in August directing agencies to rein in enforcement, including in environmental cases. Although the memo cited the pandemic, it was an effort that really started in earnest in January, when OMB issued a request for proposal about how to increase the burden on the government — rather than the individual (Greenwire, Jan. 30). That too, he said, probably would have happened anyway. And it could have had major impacts had Trump won a second term.

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[Sherman A1]

1. All of his BS will be unscrewed in January

[Mike 03]

2. What about some of these fish and animal related changes:

Lifting protections on wolves
Allowing hunters to shoot bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens
Changes in fishing regulations allowing long-banned long-line fishing techniques that endanger other species?
Opening that ocean and bird preserve in the north east to fishing?
Allowing the use of small explosive devices to kill some animals in certain states?

Didn't Trump open up some national reserves to hunting?

Did anything come of Pebble Mine?
Drilling in ANWR?
The huge pristine forest in Alaska: wasn't part of it open to logging?
Destruction of a national monument in Arizona to build the wall?

I read, and then never heard of this story again: NAVY asking for permission to use some kind of device in the pacific northwest that might result in killing Orcas, and obtaining a permit that allowed them to kill a certain number in the course of doing whatever experiments they were doing?

I hope NONE of these disgusting things happen(end), but those made big news at the time they were announced.