The waters are too clean
Catching up on one from a week ago:
[Editing to add: actually a year and a week ago. I should have realized. I knew he’d started doing it as soon as he got the chance, but I assumed this was a new phase. Reminder to self: check the year.]
President Trump stepped up his attack on federal environmental protections Tuesday, issuing an order directing his administration to begin the long process of rolling back sweeping clean water rules that were enacted by his predecessor.
……………………………What kind of fucking evil sack of shit gets rid of clean water rules?
Stupid question; I know; the fucking evil sack of shit who stole the election and now gets to destroy everything. I know. But making the water more toxic…god damn.
The order directing the Environmental Protection Agency to set about dismantling the Waters of the United States rule takes aim at one of President Obama’s signature environmental legacies, a far-reaching anti-pollution effort that expanded the authority of regulators over the nation’s waterways and wetlands.
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“It is such a horrible, horrible rule,” Trump said as he signed the directive Tuesday aimed at the water rules. “It has such a nice name, but everything about it is bad.” He declared the rule, championed by environmental groups to give the EPA broad authority over nearly two-thirds of the waterways in the nation, “one of the worst examples of federal regulation” and “a massive power grab.”
It won’t be easy or quick for him though.
Both the climate and the clean water rules were enacted only after a long and tedious process of public hearings, scientific analysis and bureaucratic review. That entire process must be revisited before they can be weakened. It could take years.
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Trump vowed Tuesday that he would continue to undermine the Obama-era environmental protections wherever he sees the opportunity, arguing they have cost jobs. “So many jobs we have delayed for so many years,” Trump said. “It is unfair to everybody.”
Many industries take issue with that interpretation. Tuesday’s order, for example, was met with a swift rebuke from sport fishing and hunting groups. They said the clean water rule has been a boon to the economy, sustaining hundreds of thousands of jobs in their industry.
“Sports men and women will do everything within their power to compel the administration to change course and to use the Clean Water Act to improve, not worsen, the nation’s waterways,” a statement from a half-dozen of the organizations said.
If there’s a shitty thing that can be done, you can be sure Trump will do it.
So unfair to give people clean water…
Yeah, if people want clean water they can buy it in non-degradable plastic bottles like decent environmental wreckers.
It’s not as if clean water rules do anything to drain swamps. Figuratively. And sarcastically.
It becomes apparent that Trump’s goal is to turn the United States into a Third World country. Dictatorship, poor water and sanitation, desperate poverty, no right to criticize the government…I guess that’s what he meant by Make America Great Again™.
Gee, that sounds so ominous. Is The Government, by way of those power-mad environmental regulators, sending Federal agents to interrogate us about our loyalty to the country? Invading Sacramento? Suspending the First Amendment?
…Oh. Well, civil servants trying to protect our wetlands and waterways is kinda scary. I guess.
This was from a year and a week ago, yes?
Oh christ, so it was.