President Donald Trump will issue a sweeping “energy independence” executive order today to dismantle signature global warming policies put in place by the Obama administration.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt told ABC News Trump would issue the order tomorrow to make “sure that we have a pro-growth and pro-environment approach to how we do regulation in this country.”
“The executive order is going to address the past administration’s effort to kill jobs across this country through the Clean Power Plan,” Pruitt told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos of the “energy independence” executive order on Sunday.
Trump promised to eliminate “job-killing” energy regulations during his campaign, specifically rolling back an EPA regulation limiting greenhouse gas emissions on power plants — the Clean Power Plan (CPP).
The upcoming order goes even farther than axing the CPP, according to Bloomberg’s Jennifer Dlouhy, who got a sneak peek at Tuesday’s order. Here’s what it does:
- Orders EPA to review and “if appropriate” work to repeal or revise the CPP.
- Rescinds the Interior Department’s moratorium on new coal mining leases on federal lands.
- Repeals an Obama-era guidance on how federal agencies should take global warming into account when doing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) permitting reviews.
- Disbands a federal working group that developed the “social cost of carbon” (SCC) estimate used to justify onerous global warming regulations. The SCC will also be thrown out.
Dlouhy reports Trump’s order revokes “six specific directives from his predecessor, including Obama’s broad strategy for paring emissions of methane released from oil and gas operations.”
Trump will also rescind “Obama directives targeted for repeal include one on climate change and national security, as well as a pair of directives from June 2013 that laid out his climate plans,” Dlouhy reported.
While most of Trump’s order can immediately take effect, repealing the CPP will have to go through a lengthy process that could take months or years.
Environmentalists have also vowed to sue the Trump administration to defend the CPP. They’ll likely be joined by Democratic state attorneys general.
Republished with permission from The Daily Caller
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Sounds like a good start.
What about the CO2 endangerment finding? That’s the one that declares, roughly, that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. I guess that makes me a bad person, I have been known to breathe out lots of the terrible substance.
Tony.
But, but …the EPA’s co2 Endangerment Finding is NOT repealed.
Tomorrow ? The 29th ? What a day to remember, our Prime Minister should be issuing the Article 50 letter to the EU as well. Perhaps we should have a combined day of celebration !
Rather than Obamacare I’d would have started with the silly renewable energy program cancellation, and save billions in not time. Look at the pitiful performance of a life-long offshore wind farm announced on this forum earlier:
Cost, capital $ 23,000,000*
Capacity, nameplate 4.9 MW (11 turbines of 0.45 MW each)
Output, lifetime 1.1 MW
CF, lifetime . 1.1/4.9 = 22 %
Cost per output 23/1.1 = 21 $/W*
Cost per capacity 23/4.9 = 4.7 $/W*
* in 2017 dollars
As to nuclear plants (clean and green), one would expect their capital cost decreasing overtime as it is common with every machinery entering repeated production. And indeed it is so in South Korea. Why not in the US? One reason – we feed ever growing armies of lawyers, politicians and regulators that make good living on driving the cost up.
Has anyone ever tried to do an honest accounting for the social cost of CO2? One that accurately includes all the positive as well as negative impacts?
Personally I’m confident that the final number will show that CO2 on net is a benefit to the planet and to mankind. But it would be nice to be able to put some hard numbers to that belief.
I wonder if Trump is saving the “Walk Away From Paris” for Earth Day? Will be very funny if he does!
Popcorn plan is being formulated!
Ha ha 🙂
The story is based on a Bloomberg story, so one cannot really tell what Trump intends, as the Bloomberg organization is decidedly not tight with the Republicans.
I agree these actions are long overdue. I would also agree however with other commenters regarding the CO2 endangerment finding. It is a lynchpin in the whole global warming mythology, and one which many voters and legislators still believe to be true. It would be very helpful for the Trump administration to seek reversal of that finding in a very public, science-validated way so that anyone willing to listen to logical evidence can know why all the other moves to deregulate energy make sense and are, in fact, in the best interests of all but the rent seekers living off the new religion.
A good start.
Eugene WR Gallun
Wingnut Nineth Circuit Court to stay the order in 1… 2… 3…
The BBC also reported, showing a photo of steam being vented to the atmosphere. It wasn’t the usual taken-at-sunset-to-make-white-steam-look-like-black-smoke, but still gray and described as coming from coal-fired plant. Comments not yet allowed of course.
I bet Anthony like typing those first three words: President Donald Trump.
Here here!!
I would like to know what virus exists in the “Deep State” such to confound Trump’s uprooting of Obama effect. You know, the bureaucrat people, committed to the Green religion who feel justified to be obstructionists. Who are they? Names please.
Next on the agenda should be creating a law so that the self-proclaimed Lorax can no longer sue the government on behalf of their abstract idea of Gaia. These luddites are guilty of squandering tax coffers and hindering advancement of society, and should be in some dirt floored (so they can feel close to the Earth) prison somewhere rotting away.
If the U.S. kills the Clean Power Plan, then I guess that means the U.S. cannot meet the obligations Obama agreed to in the Paris Agreement.
The Progressives will just take this to some Progressive Federal judge who will create some new reason out of thin air (rather than the law) to overturn it.
Today is the beginning of the end of falsified science, as has been practiced, preached and set forward by Hansen, Mann, Weaver, Gore, Suzuki et al, etc etc. History will record how a small band of activist scientists almost hijacked the scientific process while trying to set a global policy that would have demonized our use of fossil fuels, the energy source that has given birth to the modern world as we know it. Let us ensure that this never happens again, that a small clique of agenda driven scientific hacks and quacks, ever get to set any global agenda by deliberately misrepresenting and falsifying science to advance their goals.
Can’t have the whole cake at once. This is a tasty slice with much more to come. Imagine if the election had gone the other way. We would be hungry. Thank You President Trump.
D. J. Hawkins said:
“Voters have shown that right now they don’t want middle-of-the-roaders, and Republicans have always (Dole, McCain, Romney) lost when they try to move center.”
If you sit in the middle of the road, you are likely to get run over. The examples above support that point.
As to meeting goals Obama agreed to under the Paris Climate Accord. Anyone wondering how the US is going to do that should speak with the one US citizen who agreed to it. He can explain what steps he plans to take. Good luck.
Independence Day!
BO bypassed Congress by sneaking this junk through his owned and operated EPA.
Well, we’ll see…
Whatever happens the coal industry will not get revived and it is unlikely it will even do much to extend the life of remaining coal power plants.
There are sufficient states to carry forward renewables roll out and there are an awful lot of court cases to get through before any of it sticks.
Aka the un-Jimmy Carter Independence Plan and the un-Voldemort, lunatic plan of Trump’s predecessor who must not be named.
It will be fun watching the democrats try to explain why President Trump can’t unilaterally cancel the unilateral executive orders of President Obama.
Soon manufacturing will start to expand.