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Related: About this forumTrump directs EPA to ease air quality rules he says suffocates industry
President Trump's latest effort to boost the nation's manufacturing sector is an industry-friendly rewrite of air quality regulations he says pose "unnecessary and outdated barriers to growth."
But environmental advocates warn it would be another damaging step by an administration obsessed with deregulation at the expense of hard-fought public health protections.
The proposed loosening of air quality standards came in the form of a directive Trump issued Thursday instructing the EPA to work with states that have metro areas which failed to attain clean air standards. The president's primary aim, the directive states, is "promoting domestic manufacturing and job creation."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/16/president-trump-directs-epa-ease-air-quality-rules-he-says-suffocates-industry/512898002/
DFW
(54,405 posts)At least "industry" breathes easy........
mindem
(1,580 posts)He'd rather suffocate people. The repukes have become a national nightmare.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Just killing us slower with the release of damaging chemicals to our environment for profits. Just like the business guy turned Gov. did to Flint and their water trying to save a buck.
Rhiannon12866
(205,491 posts)The only explanation: he just wants us all to die.
MFM008
(19,816 posts)Want the same for him.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Like li'l bush's clean skies initiative. Repug nazi moves, combined with repug 'wit'.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)and the living creatures, you are just despicable.
A good, intelligent leader would be concerned with developing new technologies that get us our whatnots and widgets using modern technology or innovation. Right now we KNOW how to make plastic from biodegradable sources, we need leaders who are making laws to require THAT. That is what is good for the planet and life. That is the bottom line. Not profit.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)The Lung Assoc. just released it Annual State of the air report.
The State of the Air 2018 is based on data reported from 2014 to 2016 and finds that air pollution worsened compared to last year's reports, specifically ozone pollution. Nearly 4 in 10 people in the United States, more than 133.9 million Americans, live in counties where they are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution in the form of either ozone or particle pollution. This year's State of the Air report shows that despite the recent increase in ozone pollution, the Clean Air act has worked to clean up much of the dangerous air pollution across the nation for decades. The air is cleaner, but not clean enough, to protect people's health from harm. And climate change will continue to make both ozone pollution and particle pollution harder to clean up."
Nolen says weakening the Clean Air Act tops the list of six threats identified in this years report. "The second threat is repealing plans to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. Unfortunately last year the EPA administrator proposed to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the only nationwide strategic approach to cutting carbon pollution from the largest industrial scale source of carbon pollution in the United States, power plants. The third threat is removing limits on emissions from oil and gas operations. Threat number four: opening doors for more polluting trucks and cars. In 2017 EPA proposed to create a loophole to allow the sale of much dirtier heavy duty diesel trucks, despite broad opposition from the rest of the trucking industry. And earlier this month, the administrator proposed, EPA and the department of transportation proposed new rules to weaken adopted standards for greenhouse gas emission reductions from cars, from personal trucks and SUVs. Threat number five: cutting funding and expertise to clean up the air."
[link:http://wamc.org/post/lung-association-releases-annual-state-air-report|]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)He wants to take a few people with him in a weird sort of murder/suicide.