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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Here’s WaPo’s Heartland conference story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mercers-trump-mega-donors-back-group-that-casts-doubt-on-climate-science/2017/03/26/dc1fde86-109b-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.703c558e46eb
Interesting about the Mercers, Mr. Knights. Their actions (i.e., their investing heavily in both junk science promoters like BEST and in science realist groups like Heartland) say: “We just want to keep this controversy alive.”
Apparently, they simply want to keep media/book/other communication view and or sales volumes UP (along with the ad sales based on those media sales).
I’ve sensed this in some of the lukewarmer skeptics, at times. They care more about selling something or making money in some way off the AGW controversy itself than about getting the facts about human CO2 out there.
Examples:
— those selling battery (or energy storage) tech
— those selling books or temperature data products
— those making money or gaining publicity in other ways/for other reasons
If healthcare is any indication, and I believe it is, one cannot expect meaningful leadership from DJT. He is a demagogue and a liar.
He routinely fails and blames it on others. He routinely lies and dismisses it as the words of others.
I’m not sure what anyone would expect from a man of very low character.
This is the first election I did not vote, and I won’t vote in 2020 if he is a candidate.
So, you were for Hillary. That we know for sure. To not vote for Trump was to make it more likely that she would win. I’m assuming you were bright enough to realize that (that was not sarcastic).
That is, you did not choose DJT as many did, as “the lesser of two evils.” Thus, you were FOR Hillary (again, I’m assuming you are not stupid).
And that makes your criticism of him pretty meaningless.
It of course is not meaningless. He can’t even obtain a consensus in his own party. So far his administration is inept. I do hope he learns, but I don’t think he’s learned anything. Donald’s pride will prevent him from doing anything meaningful.
Whenever his ego get hurt he lashes out, blames insults and demeans people.
He’ll be like lucky to be able to get the Oval Office carpet cleaned in the next four years.
And I live in California so no, my not voting didn’t help Hillary.
Before you know it, Trump will have managed to get both Obama and Hillary indicted for some of their crimes. Well, maybe not Obama, since Obama was probably smart enough not to leave his personal fingerprints on anything, but some of his minions should definitely be getting nervous. Hillary wasn’t that smart. She left fingerprints.
Trump has also caused the MSM to practically self-destruct with their frenzied, blatant lying, and frantic efforts to pin something, anything, on Trump and deflect attention from the real issues like Obama administration corruption and law breaking.
As for the Health Care law, the Republicans only needed about 15 more votes to get the bill passed in the House. It would have probably died in the Senate anyway. It was not the right bill. And the bill was certainly not handled properly and that’s not Trump’s fault. It’s not up to him to move the bill through the House in the proper way. I’m betting Trump is going to be a lot more handson in the future, as he sees what happens when he is hands off.
I want to know more about the Kansas doctor that is offering medical insurance for $50 per month per adult and $10 per month per child, which pays *all* medical expenses you incur and does not include any deductibles. It does not cover catastrophic care, but they have a separate policy that covers that. The doctor said he was able to offer these low prices because he negotiated deals with various insurance companies. He also negotiated with drug companies and his costs are “pennies on the dollar” compared to the average drug prices. And this guy did all this under the current atmosphere of Obamacare. In other words, Obamacare was not an obstacle to him setting up this inexpensive health insurance plan.
Sean Hannity of Fox News has been promoting this guy and his methods for a couple of months now, and now, the governor of Mississippi says he is going to try to implement something similar across his whole state. While we are waiting for Congress to get their act together, perhaps it would be worthwhile to explore this man’s alternative. Looks like it may happen in Mississippi.
Grant, Pop. vote, Trump lost the US by 2.9M, SoCal by 4.4M. I.e., he won the Rest of the US (including NY!) by 1.5M! Put that in your *** and ***** it!
You can wait on the side of the road for a leader more to your liking. As for me, I’ll follow this one He’s going in the direction I was heading in.
He’s already blown what little political clout he had. Washington ain’t Wall Street and politicians are quickly realizing that he’s politically toxic.
And don’t get me started on the travel ban. I’ll-conceived, rushed, foolish, without any regard for the political, legal and real consequences. Your confidence is misplaced.
Why was the ban “I’ll conceived”? Yeah, I know you meant “ill conceived.”
Doesn’t the United States have a right to control its borders?
How come you didn’t complain when Obama was droning people to death in the 7 countries named by Trump?
Why is the travel ban presented by the rabid left as some kind of horrible, racist, bigoted act, while Obama’s proud slaughter of innocent men, women and children was given a free pass?
A temporary travel ban lasting about the same time it would take to travel to the United States prior to the invention of jetliners: how shocking and awful!
Personal, I’d rather be banned from visiting a country than droned to death. I suspect most humans feel the same way – except the rabid left.
And it’s a moratorium, a temporary restriction. It’s a bilge pump to keep the boat afloat while you work out how to repair the leak. Calling it a ‘ban’ is disingenuous language that the fair-minded need to avoid.
A Republican president can do no right and a Democrat president can do no wrong, doncha know.
. US President Donald Trump ordered on 28 March 2017 changes in Obama-era climate policy. The items broadly covered are emission rules for power plants , limits on methane leaks , a moratorium on coal leasing and the use of the social cost of carbon to guide Govt action. One news media view is that some of President Obama’s climate policies may prove harder to uproot than thought. Of precise relevance to the said announcement by President Trump on 28 March 2017 are the interesting predictions of this Vedic astrology writer in article – “ Astrological probable alerts for US in 2017” – submitted for publication last year in October and published in December 2016 issue of wisdom-magazine.com. The article can be reached by first going to the website of the said said magazine , then ticking on “ Articles Archives” followed by a further ticking on “ Heavens”. The following text applicable to the announcement made on 28 March 2017 is reproduced here from the article : “ The months of February- March 2017 look to be bringing to surface for US . . . . ambitious projects relating to power generation or nuclear energy may meet with delay. Also , take more care while handling chemicals or nuclear energy”. In substance , the prediction was that in February –March 2017 , energy resources having much to do with Obama-era climate change policy may undergo material changes , which could encounter delay or some opposing stances. And that appears likely. The point is to let readers know the accuracy of the prediction.
Dear Moderator,
Please delete the above comment (kk at 6:18pm). Talking about astrology “predicting” anything is (to me) unhelpful at best and detrimental to getting the truth about science out at worst (actually, the worst would be if a child or young person reading this were led into dabbling in astrology).
Thanks for considering my request.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO KEEP THE WUWT SHIP AFLOAT!!
Janice
Dear Janice,
While the comment may be ridiculous, there’s nothing in it that violates site policy.
Now now, Janice, advocating censorship, no matter how well-intentioned, is not the Way. 🙂
Better a dozen ridiculous statements be uttered, than one profound statement be silenced, because it looked ridiculous at first glance.
Sorry, Mr. Nicolson, but when it comes to what I consider very wicked (here, astrology), I am for censorship.
I also realize that this is not my site. So, there you go.
I doubt many people even bothered reading past the first sentence or two.
Beyond the extreme formatting issues, the text itself was confusing and rambling.
I really think Trump’s administration is going about this the wrong way. First they need to get some skeptical science facts out into the public view. They can then use that science to support their changes. Right now they are letting all their critics get away with claiming Trump is anti-science.
Get some skeptics into NOAA and NASA and have them highlight satellite data instead of surface data. Put forward Dr. Gray’s hypothesis for negative feedback. There’s lots that could be done and could then be pointed to when the liberal press attacks them.
I gather there are about 5,000 sub-cabinet posts yet to be Senate-approved, with no nominees yet!