Most excellent reply!
The guy is obviously full of spite. You tree-huggers have been abusing the oil companies for too long!
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Pruitt’s dream of a future America.
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This is a regulation, right? If so, it has to go though the NEPA process – full public review and comment, with an opportunity to seed legal challenges.
Asking because the TPM article is completely lacking in specifics.
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Do you honestly believe that Pruitt will follow the rules?
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If he doesn’t then he will go to court. This isn’t just a set of house rules. NEPA is the law.
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Well, it is confusing as written. Attorney fees for taking an unjustified position are statutory, so he must be referring to a policy of settling attorney fee petitions.
But these would be policy decisions, not rules. Litigation decisions are always subject to change with a change in leadership.
But it’s all good. I’m sure Hillary’s EPA head would have been as bad or worse.
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If it’s a policy change, that’s a much smaller deal. I’m pretty sure every environmental group out there expected zero co-operation and a fair bit of animosity. And the NRDC (to which everyone should donate) is pretty much powered by pro bono work.
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Maybe Pruitt will figure out to import Puerto Rico’s diesel fumed air and super site well water to the US.
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Before Pruitt dismantles the EPA do you think he’ll try and put the lead back in gasoline?
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He wants the lead put back in paint first—gotta have those paint chips to feed his ignorant base so they’ll keep voting for Republican assholes.
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Not likely. Taking lead out of gasoline put the onus on engine manufacturers, not on refiners.
Never ever tell me both sides are the same.
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You have to wonder if Pruitt’s actions will unfortunately embolden the eco terrorist movement like the folks who came to for in the 80’s. The Earth First crowd who would to use the term “monkey wrench” Bombings, spiking trees etc.
I would hope this stuff doesn’t occur since it would give them a convenient foil.
Like Trump, Pruitt is afraid of holding normal open to the entire public announcement of his policy change. Putin’s Puppets are hypersensitive to normal scrutiny and “gotcha questions.” Afraid someone will ask him about his emails as Oklahoma AG.
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Can’t like, but definitely agree.
SO when those offshore rigs, and fracking pipelines trump has approved take land and lives this EPA will just shrug and claim avoidance making the owners and those who approved of those rigs and pipelines more liable…
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So he’s going to end up spending more money on litigation than he otherwise would have, while asking for a smaller budget, which means laying off even more of the people who do the real work at the EPA. Win-win for his donors.
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And has been tested time and again at SCOTUS since it became law in 1969.
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Party Lines once again. Give Corporations more. If there are deaths that are linked to his influenceover the environment, as is it is MI"s call on water. I think he should be charged to with manslaughter.
Watch what you do MR. it will come home to rest on Your head and Trumps’.