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Cattledog

(5,915 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 04:31 AM Apr 2018

Trump 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nation's manufacturing sector is an industry-friendly rewrite of air quality regulations he says pose "unnecessary and outdated barriers to growth."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/

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Trump directs EPA to ease air quality rules he says suffocates industry (Original Post) Cattledog Apr 2018 OP
Right, better the population suffocates DFW Apr 2018 #1
Asshole mindem Apr 2018 #2
He's doing the same thing as Asaud, duforsure Apr 2018 #3
And he wants to roll back the Obama emission standards for cars Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 #4
Many of us MFM008 Apr 2018 #5
I get it, dRumpie. Ha ha. Mc Mike Apr 2018 #6
When you put making money above taking care of the planet logosoco Apr 2018 #7
He apparently doesn't care if people suffocate.... Historic NY Apr 2018 #8
Trump's going to die soon Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 #9

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. He's doing the same thing as Asaud,
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 04:58 AM
Apr 2018

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)
4. And he wants to roll back the Obama emission standards for cars
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 05:18 AM
Apr 2018

The only explanation: he just wants us all to die.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
6. I get it, dRumpie. Ha ha.
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:16 AM
Apr 2018

Like li'l bush's clean skies initiative. Repug nazi moves, combined with repug 'wit'.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
7. When you put making money above taking care of the planet
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:25 AM
Apr 2018

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)
8. He apparently doesn't care if people suffocate....
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 07:33 AM
Apr 2018

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 year’s 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|]

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