Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumIn His Haste to Roll Back Rules, Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief, Risks His Agenda.
WASHINGTON As ethical questions threaten the Environmental Protection Administrator, Scott Pruitt, President Trump has defended him with a persuasive conservative argument: Mr. Pruitt is doing a great job at what he was hired to do, roll back regulations.
But legal experts and White House officials say that in Mr. Pruitts haste to undo government rules and in his eagerness to hold high-profile political events promoting his agenda, he has often been less than rigorous in following important procedures, leading to poorly crafted legal efforts that risk being struck down in court.
The result, they say, is that the rollbacks, intended to fulfill one of the presidents central campaign pledges, may ultimately be undercut or reversed.
In their rush to get things done, theyre failing to dot their is and cross their ts. And theyre starting to stumble over a lot of trip wires, said Richard Lazarus, a professor of environmental law at Harvard. Theyre producing a lot of short, poorly crafted rulemakings that are not likely to hold up in court.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-rollbacks.html?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)of an American courtroom without the help of people who constantly harassed and attacked Hillary
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)The son of Reagan-era anti-environmental zealot Anne Gorsuch being one of the final nine people empowered to conduct final review on all environmental protections is far from what I had hoped, to say the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gorsuch_Burford
k&r
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