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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water----he must be so proud 🖕🏼
A train traveling over the Mississippi River in Prairie du Chien, Wis. The clean water rule gives the federal government broad authority to limit pollution in major bodies of water as well as in streams and wetlands that drain into them.
WASHINGTON President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at rolling back one of former President Barack Obamas major environmental regulations to protect American waterways, but it will have almost no immediate legal effect, according to two people familiar with the White House plans.
The order will essentially give Mr. Trump a megaphone to direct his new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, to begin the complicated legal process of rewriting the sweeping 2015 rule known as Waters of the United States. But that effort could take longer than a single presidential term, legal experts said.
An advance copy of the order was viewed by The New York Times on Monday. It is the first of two announcements expected to direct Mr. Pruitt to begin dismantling the major pillars of Mr. Obamas environmental legacy.
In the coming week, Mr. Trump is also expected to sign a similar order instructing Mr. Pruitt to begin the process of withdrawing and revising Mr. Obamas signature 2015 climate-change regulation, aimed at curbing emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants.
The order will essentially give Mr. Trump a megaphone to direct his new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, to begin the complicated legal process of rewriting the sweeping 2015 rule known as Waters of the United States. But that effort could take longer than a single presidential term, legal experts said.
An advance copy of the order was viewed by The New York Times on Monday. It is the first of two announcements expected to direct Mr. Pruitt to begin dismantling the major pillars of Mr. Obamas environmental legacy.
In the coming week, Mr. Trump is also expected to sign a similar order instructing Mr. Pruitt to begin the process of withdrawing and revising Mr. Obamas signature 2015 climate-change regulation, aimed at curbing emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/trump-epa-clean-water-climate-change.html
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Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water----he must be so proud 🖕🏼 (Original Post)
spanone
Feb 2017
OP
2 for 1 at your local grocer, Trump Water, bringing to you the finest most polluted water on earth.
RKP5637
Feb 2017
#3
FSogol
(45,524 posts)1. Henceforth all polluted water shall be called "Trump Water"
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. 2 for 1 at your local grocer, Trump Water, bringing to you the finest most polluted water on earth.
Made proudly in the USA, by Don the Con, Inc.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)2. He probably figures if he can have the environment kill off people, that will help solve his
problems.
atreides1
(16,091 posts)6. Actually
I believe Bannon will use a major accident as a way to attack American Muslims!
Trump will sign an Executive Order requiring all Muslims to register with the DHS, and those that are considered "a threat" will be detained and placed in detention!
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)7. As he follows the dictator's handbook!!! Feels like Germany, WWII. n/t
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)4. republicans PISSING in America's drinking water.
Why can't republicans confine their freaking "family-values" degeneracy to the bedroom?
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)5. But military spending to increase
What kind of filthy, polluted homeland will there be left to defend?
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)8. I've always wanted to tan leather
I think I'll set up a tannery just upstream of Pruitt's home. A good old fashioned kind of tannery, like Bangledesh. Who knows, in Trumps America I may even be able to use women and children as virtual slave labor to save a few bucks.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)9. Flint lead poisoned water for all of America...enjoy!
Naw let's call it Trump water now.