Trump Preparing Host Of Executive Orders To Reshape EPA

Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been told that President Donald Trump is preparing a handful of executive orders to reshape the agency, to be signed once a new administrator is confirmed, two sources who attended the meeting told Reuters on Wednesday.

A senior EPA official who had been briefed by members of the Trump administration mentioned the executive orders at a meeting of staffers in the EPA's Office of General Counsel on Tuesday, but did not provide details about what the orders would say, said the sources, who asked not to be named.

"It was just a heads-up to expect some executive orders, that's it," one of the sources said.

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TheSteve - 2/16/2017 1:04:36 PM

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*Allegedly*, leaked White House documents assert the Republican Administrator's intention is to dismantle the EPA entirely. In these days of "alternate facts," just keep this in your back pocket.

Related stories report gag orders, already in effect, that prevent government-paid scientists from talking about Climate Change, and executive orders that have stopped spend on Climate Change and other environmental research.

Meanwhile, previous administrations passed existing laws to prohibit the Center for Disease Control from doing any research related to firearm deaths in the USA (the law was sponsored and vigorously promoted by the Gun Lobby, owned and funded by, and representing, promoting, and defending the interests of the firearm manufacturers of America).

These are just a few examples of Business determining law.

bnilhome - 2/17/2017 8:18:24 AM

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I agree Matt. The EPA under Obama was a mess and was way over the top with regulations.

nguyenvuminh - 2/16/2017 1:07:37 PM

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009 must be in heaven :-)

MDarringer - 2/17/2017 8:13:25 AM

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I'm there with him. The economic terrorism practiced by the EPA must end. Global Warming is a secular pseudoreligion (sic) practiced by the Alt-Left unicorns and 9is quite easily debunked as far as the science goes. The Alt-left needs to get off its knees. I'll even give them a tissue to tidy up.

nguyenvuminh - 2/16/2017 1:08:59 PM

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By that, I mean he gets moral support from Trump and all of the headline news, as well as opportunities to post articles that will get a lot of clicks on his postings.

Yonder7 - 2/16/2017 4:14:31 PM

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For a country were most of the best educated people is located, what is happening there, is unbelievable. I will see the pollution rising in your country and the beautiful nature that you have thanks to an ignorant that have no idea of what ecology is. There was a time when USA voters were governing but now just a small bunch of corrupt politicians and aristocrats with money but no brain to foresee the future. We need the French Revolution again but in the Whole World. Sadly in my country we have same issues. Corrupted Rich people and Politicians.

bnilhome - 2/17/2017 8:21:54 AM

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Yonder-The US has had corrupt politicians for years which is a big reason Trump won the election to "drain the swamp." He is proceeding with an agenda putting American interests firsts, whether it be promoting job and economic growth or keeping Americans safe. The prior administration and EPA was out of touch with mainstream American on environmental issues with the biggest example being the Keystone Pipeline.

ricks0me - 2/16/2017 5:55:04 PM

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Related stories report gag orders, already in effect, that prevent government-paid scientists from talking about Climate Change, and executive orders that have stopped spend on Climate Change and other environmental research.

TheSteve:

Those government paid scientist are part of the Obama Shadow Government. If climate change ( used to be climate warming ... what happened Steve?) is caused by man, please come to Baltimore and make it snow.

Witing Patiently / Rick

TheSteve - 2/17/2017 1:43:15 AM

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Hey ricks0me, talk to Canucks who are 50 and older, who grew up with regular blizzards and chest-high snow banks. Today, a Green Christmas and droughts are the norm in the same regions.

Talk to the inhabitants of the Solomon Islands (and other low-lying ocean islands) whose homeland has been literally swallowed up by the sea. Obviously, it's just the lies being spread by those hateful Aussie scientists who hate America.

Glaciers receding? Bare rock for miles that used to be covered by a sheet of ice hundreds of feet thick less than 50 years ago? All BS, made up by liars who hate business and maybe even who have a personal vendetta against the Administrator of the Republican Party. Just a bunch of anti-business communist Fiberals who hate America and are standing in the way of Making It Great Again.

Yup, the climate is the same. Everything ELSE in the universe changes... except Earth climate. It's just people making crap up as the attempt to make a political party look bad. Oh those liars! Good thing we know better and we can see through the smoke screen!

MDarringer - 2/16/2017 8:13:26 PM

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The EPA is a Gestapo and it needs to be put in check big time.

ricks0me - 2/17/2017 12:49:21 PM

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TheSteve:

Ok... I will concede the point >>> Climate Warming .... oops... I mean Climate Change Is Real And Caused By Man. So Man Can Fix It. Go Fix Those Trouble Spots.

TheSteve - 2/17/2017 6:41:07 PM

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I believe the preferred term du jour is "Enviro-Nazi."

TheSteve - 2/21/2017 4:19:28 AM

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FAQMD: re your Samoan friends...

Here's your geography lesson for the day:
http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from-solomon-islands-to-samoa

The Samoan islands you refer to are a completely different place than the Solomon Islands I mention. 1900 miles distance and entirely different geography separates them. Careful of the kangaroos next time you visit Austria ;-)