The New Exchange / Five things Pruitt can do to cripple the EPA

**Posted by Common Sense** 2/19/2017 7:08 pm

I read recently that President Trump is going to visit the EPA and have an EO signing ceremony. The story said the
EO that Trump will sign will suck the air out of the room! The EO could include the agency’s climate change work, its broad enforcement powers or its overall approach to regulation.
One more election promise that will be honored.

Five things Pruitt can do to cripple the EPA

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/scott-pruitt-epa-reshape-235156

President Donald Trump vowed to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Senate has just confirmed his man to do it.Scott Pruitt, who was sworn in as EPA administrator early Friday evening, will wield vast power to reshape the 46-year-old, 15,000-person agency he has criticized so fiercely.

As Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt sued the agency at least 14 times — often in lockstep with fossil fuel companies — to try to overturn the agency's air and water regulations. He has questioned the role of humans play in climate change, while arguing that much of the agency's authority should be in the states' hands.

Now, Pruitt's actions — and the executive orders Trump is planning for the agency — could have repercussions for years.

**Posted by Goose** 2/19/2017 7:32 pm

So, you think that it would be a good thing to cripple environmental protection?
Please explain why.

**Posted by Rongone** 2/19/2017 7:48 pm

Another incompetent, totally unqualified appointee by Trump.

It's going to be an interesting 4 years.

**Posted by tennyson** 2/19/2017 7:54 pm

Your children and grandchildren will pay the price !

**Posted by Goose** 2/25/2017 8:16 am

Common Sense wrote:
One more election promise that will be honored.

EPA delays rule for miners to give cleanup assurances

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Facing pushback from industry and Republicans in Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delayed on Friday a proposal that would require mining companies to show they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution so taxpayers aren't stuck footing the bill.

Contaminated water from mine sites can flow into rivers and other waterways, harming aquatic life and threatening drinking water supplies. Companies in the past avoided cleanup costs in many cases by declaring bankruptcy.

Newly sworn-in EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, a longtime critic of the agency during his previous position as Oklahoma attorney general, said the four-month delay would give more opportunity for public comment.

The financial assurance rule was proposed during the Obama administration and fiercely opposed by mining industry representatives, who contended it was unnecessary and redundant because of other programs meant to prevent mines from becoming government cleanup liabilities.

https://www.apnews.com/94f8235ea0a645f18432d5da46f9c262?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

Last edited by Goose (2/25/2017 8:19 am)