This land is your land, this land is my land
From the California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
Beautiful words by Woody Guthrie. Donald Trump has a different definition of “you and me.”
Anyone who believes the Environmental Protection Agency will change its course, now that Scott Pruitt is out, better think again. It’s going to get worse under former coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts provide the necessary authority to establish standards and preserve the environment. But they don’t go into particulars. This is left to the rules and regulations of the EPA. The laws give the EPA authority to enforce their rules, but exactly how vigorously rules are enforced is up to the EPA.
Trump’s agenda is simply to eliminate everything done by Obama. But, by the time the destruction is done, he’ll roll back rules dating back to the Nixon administration. Probably the single most harmful one, is the plan rollback car emission standards. This hurts most people who live in urban areas, the elderly and health impaired individuals.
Stay tuned,
Dave
Andrew Wheeler, the fossil fuels lobbyist now making (undoing) policies:
This land is made for Exxon, Murray Coal and Dow Chemical.
See link below (it has been updated to July 2018):
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