And what. USA is continually increasing air quality, it hasnt' stopped. People make more money they buy more efficient products that are more expensive, win win.
Air Pollution in USA: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
And what. USA is continually increasing air quality, it hasnt' stopped. People make more money they buy more efficient products that are more expensive, win win.
Air Pollution in USA: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
^^ To be fair Kit and i am not a fan of Trumpo but has Merca every bought into the whole Environmental thing...it hits profits and that is not the Mercan way. The US has never knowingly signed anything detrimental to profit in favour of the environment - i think one congress woman proposed something because of the future of her children but got preggers and paid off quickly
Here ya go misskit, this a list of EO's, Pick 1 you vehemently oppose.
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You asked. I told you. You don’t care. And what?
This is what happened, The media has bombarded people with negativity towards Trump and his supporters ever since the 2016 election, people with little interest in politics or Trump would echo those negative points of view with friends and relatives, a hive mind ensued. Don't believe me? here are some stats on media reporting.
Media ups the ante on negative coverage of Trump
Now get that around ya head, how in the world is a average joe or jane going to work every day and coming home to cook, relax, play with the kids, "watch the news" or a little TV ever going to be able to figure fact from fallacy?
Trump Has Dismantled More Monuments Than Any Protest
The president is threatening 10-year prison sentences for anyone who vandalizes a monument. He has destroyed four himself, including one honoring Native American cultural heritage.
SNIP
Those rollbacks include carving more than 2 million acres from a pair of protected national monuments in Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante ― in December 2017. The boundary of Bears Ears, a 1.35 million-acre landscape that several tribes consider sacred, was cut by 85%. Nearby 1.87 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante, the largest land national monument in the country and rich in both archeological and paleontological resources, was cut roughly in half. This month, Trump signed a proclamation to greenlight commercial fishing within Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a vast protected site off the East Coast ― a move that goes against the very purpose of designating a marine sanctuary.
The administration has also bulldozed and blown up Indigenous cultural and burial sites within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a UNESCO biosphere reserve that is also home to endangered species, to make way for Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Ned Norris Jr., the chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, has compared construction of the wall on sacred burial sites to desecrating Arlington National Cemetery.
The Interior Department has floated additional cuts at several other protected national monuments.
MORE Trump Has Dismantled More Monuments Than Any Protest | HuffPost
Booners is trying to show that baldy orange cunto has actually achieved something worthwhile.
This should be a fucking laugh.
Here Are The 27 National Monuments Threatened By Trump’s Order
Here Are The 27 National Monuments Threatened By Trump's Order | HuffPost
Air pollution and emissions
Completed
1. Weakened Obama-era fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light trucks.
E.P.A. and Transportation Department | Read more »
2. Revoked California’s power to set stricter tailpipe emissions standards than the federal government.
E.P.A. | Read more »
3. Withdrew the legal justification for an Obama-era rule that limited mercury emissions from coal power plants.
E.P.A. | Read more »
4. Replaced the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have set strict limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, with a new version that would let states set their own rules.
Executive Order; E.P.A. | Read more »
5. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions.
E.P.A. | Read more »
6. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations.
Interior Department | Read more »
7. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters.
E.P.A. | Read more »
8. Revised a program designed to safeguard communities from increases in pollution from new power plants to make it easier for facilities to avoid emissions regulations.
E.P.A. | Read more »
9. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities.
E.P.A. | Read more »
10. Weakened an Obama-era rule meant to reduce air pollution in national parks and wilderness areas.
E.P.A. | Read more »
11. Weakened oversight of some state plans for reducing air pollution in national parks.
E.P.A. | Read more »
12. Relaxed air pollution regulations for a handful of plants that burn waste coal for electricity.
E.P.A. | Read more »
13. Repealed rules meant to reduce leaking and venting of powerful greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons from large refrigeration and air conditioning systems.
E.P.A. | Read more »
14. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the social cost of carbon that rulemakers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Executive Order | Read more »
15. Withdrew guidance directing federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews.
Executive Order; Council on Environmental Quality | Read more »
16. Revoked an Obama executive order that set a goal of cutting the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent over 10 years.
Executive Order | Read more »
17. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles on federal highways.
Transportation Department | Read more »
18. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.)
E.P.A. | Read more »
19. Changed rules to allow states and the E.P.A. to take longer to develop and approve plans aimed at cutting methane emissions from existing landfills.
E.P.A. | Read more »
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rollbacks.html
Drilling and extraction
Completed
28. Made significant cuts to the borders of two national monuments in Utah and recommended border and resource-management changes to several more.
Presidential Proclamation; Interior Department | Read more »
29. Lifted ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Congress; Interior Department | Read more »
30. Rescinded water pollution regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands.
Interior Department | Read more »
31. Scrapped a proposed rule that required mines to prove they could pay to clean up future pollution.
E.P.A. | Read more »
32. Withdrew a requirement that Gulf oil rig owners prove they can cover the costs of removing rigs once they stop producing.
Interior Department | Read more »
33. Moved the permitting process for certain projects that cross international borders, such as oil pipelines, to the office of the president from the State Department, exempting them from environmental review.
Executive Order | Read more »
34. Changed how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission considers the indirect effects of greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews of pipelines.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Read more »
35. Revoked an Obama-era executive order designed to preserve ocean, coastal and Great Lakes waters in favor of a policy focused on energy production and economic growth.
Executive Order | Read more »
36. Permitted the use of seismic air guns for gas and oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. The practice, which can kill marine life and disrupt fisheries, was blocked under the Obama administration.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Read more »
37. Loosened offshore drilling safety regulations implemented by the Obama after following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, including reduced testing requirements for blowout prevention systems.
Interior Department | Read more »
38. Lifted an Obama-era freeze on new coal leases on public lands. In April 2019, a judge ruled that the Interior Department could not begin selling new leases without completing an environmental review. In February, the agency published an assessment that concluded restarting federal coal leasing would have little environmental impact.
Executive Order; Interior Department | Read more »
7% view Huff post as credible.
• Huffington Post credibility in the U.S. 2020 | Statista
Infrastructure and planning
Completed
47. Weakened the National Environmental Policy Act, one of the country's most significant environmental laws, in order to expedite the approval of public infrastructure projects, such as roads, pipelines and telecommunications networks. The new rules shorten the time frame for completing environmental studies, limit the types of projects subject to review, and no longer require federal agencies to account for a project's cumulative effects on the environment, such as climate change.
Council on Environmental Quality | Read more »
48. Revoked Obama-era flood standards for federal infrastructure projects that required the government to account for sea level rise and other climate change effects.
Executive Order | Read more »
49. Relaxed the environmental review process for federal infrastructure projects.
Executive Order | Read more »
50. Overturned an Obama-era guidance that ended U.S. government financing for new coal plants overseas except in rare circumstances.
Executive Order; Treasury Department | Read more »
51. Revoked a directive for federal agencies to minimize impacts on water, wildlife, land and other natural resources when approving development projects.
Executive Order | Read more »
52. Revoked an Obama executive order promoting climate resilience in the northern Bering Sea region of Alaska, which withdrew local waters from oil and gas leasing and established a tribal advisory council to consult on local environmental issues.
Executive Order | Read more »
53. Reversed an update to the Bureau of Land Management’s public land-use planning process.
Congress | Read more »
54. Withdrew an Obama-era order to consider climate change in the management of natural resources in national parks.
National Park Service | Read more »
55. Restricted most Interior Department environmental studies to one year in length and a maximum of 150 pages, citing a need to reduce paperwork.
Interior Department | Read more »
56. Withdrew a number of Obama-era Interior Department climate change and conservation policies that the agency said could “burden the development or utilization of domestically produced energy resources.”
Interior Department | Read more »
57. Eliminated the use of an Obama-era planning system designed to minimize harm from oil and gas activity on sensitive landscapes, such as national parks.
Interior Department | Read more »
58. Withdrew Obama-era policies designed to maintain or, ideally, improve natural resources affected by federal projects.
Interior Department | Read more »
Animals
Completed
60. Changed the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, making it more difficult to protect wildlife from long-term threats posed by climate change.
Interior Department | Read more »
61. Relaxed environmental protections for salmon and smelt in California’s Central Valley in order to free up water for farmers.
Executive Order; Interior Department | Read more »
62. Overturned a ban on the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on federal lands.
Interior Department | Read more »
63. Overturned a ban on the hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges.
Congress | Read more »
64. Reversed an Obama-era rule that barred using bait, such as grease-soaked doughnuts, to lure and kill grizzly bears, among other sport hunting practices that many people consider extreme, on some public lands in Alaska.
National Park Service; Interior Department | Read more »
65. Amended fishing regulations to loosen restrictions on the harvest of a number of species.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Read more »
66. Removed restrictions on commercial fishing in a protected marine preserve southeast of Cape Cod that is home to rare corals and a number of endangered sea animals. The Trump administration has suggested changing the management or size of two other marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean.
Executive Order; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Read more »
67. Proposed revising limits on the number of endangered marine mammals and sea turtles that can be unintentionally killed or injured with sword-fishing nets on the West Coast. (The Obama-era rules were initially withdrawn by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but were later finalized following a court order. The agency has said it plans to revise the limits.)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Read more »
68. Loosened fishing restrictions intended to reduce bycatch of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Read more »
69. Rolled back a roughly 40-year-old interpretation of a policy aimed at protecting migratory birds, potentially running afoul of treaties with Canada and Mexico.
Interior Department | Read more »
70. Overturned a ban on using parts of migratory birds in handicrafts made by Alaskan Natives.
Interior Department | Read more »
Water pollution
Completed
72. Scaled back pollution protections for certain tributaries and wetlands that were regulated under the Clean Water Act by the Obama administration.
E.P.A.; Army | Read more »
73. Revoked a rule that prevented coal companies from dumping mining debris into local streams.
Congress | Read more »
74. Withdrew a proposed rule aimed at reducing pollutants, including air pollution, at sewage treatment plants.
E.P.A. | Read more »
75. Withdrew a proposed rule requiring groundwater protections for certain uranium mines. Recently, the administration’s Nuclear Fuel Working Group proposed opening up 1,500 acres outside the Grand Canyon to nuclear production.
E.P.A. | Read more »
Toxic substances and safety
Completed
83. Rejected a proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to developmental disabilities in children. (Several states have banned its use and the main manufacturer of the pesticide in 2020 stopped producing the product because of shrinking demand.)
E.P.A. | Read more »
84. Narrowed the scope of a 2016 law mandating safety assessments for potentially toxic chemicals like dry-cleaning solvents. The E.P.A. said it would focus on direct exposure and exclude indirect exposure such as from air or water contamination. In November 2019, a court of appeals ruled the agency must widen its scope to consider full exposure risks.
E.P.A. | Read more »
85. Reversed an Obama-era rule that required braking system upgrades for “high hazard” trains hauling flammable liquids like oil and ethanol.
Transportation Department | Read more »
86. Removed copper filter cake, an electronics manufacturing byproduct comprised of heavy metals, from the “hazardous waste” list.
E.P.A. | Read more »
87. Ended an Occupational Safety and Health Administration program to reduce risks of workers developing the lung disease silicosis. In February released guidance to include silica in OSHA's National Emphasis Program, a worker safety program.
Labor Department | Read more »
88. Rolled back most of the requirements of a 2017 rule aimed at improving safety at sites that use hazardous chemicals that was instituted after a chemical plant exploded in Texas.
E.P.A. | Read more »
14 states sue EPA over rollback of Obama-era water rule
A coalition of 14 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday over its rollback of a landmark Obama-era rule stipulating which waterways are regulated by the federal government.
The Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule expanded the scope of waters that farmers, manufacturers and other industries would need to ensure are in compliance with EPA guidelines.
The Trump rollback of the rule, announced in September, would relegate waterway protections to 1986 standards. A proposal for the areas that would be covered under the rule is expected sometime next year.
MORE 14 states sue EPA over rollback of Obama-era water rule | TheHill
Other
Completed
91. Repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have nearly doubled the number of light bulbs subject to energy-efficiency standards starting in January 2020. The Energy Department also blocked the next phase of efficiency standards for general-purpose bulbs already subject to regulation.
Energy Department | Read more »
92. Changed a 25-year-old policy to allow coastal replenishment projects to use sand from protected ecosystems.
Interior Department | Read more »
93. Limited funding of environmental and community development projects through corporate settlements of federal lawsuits.
Justice Department | Read more »
94. Stopped payments to the Green Climate Fund, a United Nations program to help poorer countries reduce carbon emissions.
Executive Order | Read more »
95. Reversed restrictions on the sale of plastic water bottles in national parks desgined to cut down on litter, despite a Park Service report that the effort worked.
Interior Department | Read more »
Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put Thousands of Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds
The authors used EPA’s own risk assessments to estimate the number of illnesses and early deaths prevented by clean air and water rules Trump is now trying to erase.
Using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's own numbers, two Harvard scientists have calculated that 80,000 more lives will be lost per decade if President Donald Trump's administration fulfills its plans to roll back clean air and water protections.
The researchers, terming their tally "an extremely conservative estimate," also estimated that the repeal of regulations will lead to respiratory problems for more than 1 million people. Their essay was published Tuesday in the authoritative Journal of the American Medical Association.
MORE Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Put Thousands of Lives at Risk, Harvard Analysis Finds | InsideClimate News
Go on then deeks. I live just a few miles from Plant Scherer. Look it up!
And amazingly the USA to this day has cleaner air than Europe. go figure After all those rollbacks,
Post it again, its live, for you to see with your own eyes, the regs where a money grab from gov and did nothing for the air quality.
Air Pollution in USA: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
The light bulb rollback was doozy, Poor cunts had to eat in the dark or with candles, couldnt afford $5 for a light bulb. Now they can buy a bulb for 25c.
^^ This day after big summer storms blowing pollution out.
I'm a trained sparkie ... forget the environmental benefits, the case, based on dollars saved to switch is easily defined.
https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/en...calculator.phpAre you considering switching from standard incandescent or halogen light bulbs to the far more energy-efficient LED light bulbs? Use the calculator below to work out how much money you might save on your electricity bill, and how much CO2 you could also save through energy efficiency.
This is one i liked, and big pharma hate, The govnt can now import back to the US what the pharma are selling OS at lower price.
Darn regulations.
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Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients
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