Posted on 04/20/2017 3:39:31 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Recently, President Trump signed a landmark executive order (EO) largely curtailing the climate change initiatives of President Obama. According to American Action Forum (AAF) research, this order addresses $14.6 billion in past rulemakings and more than one million paperwork burden hours.
Designed to promote domestic energy, “with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy resources,” the order directs federal agencies to “suspend, revise, or rescind” past regulations, mainly from EPA and the Department of Interior. The order also states that these efforts may work in conjunction with EO 13,771, which established a regulatory budget in the United States.
The table below shows the regulations addressed in President Trump’s EO and corresponding costs and paperwork burdens. Two rules did not contain costs and were excluded from the table.
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Regulation |
Cost (in millions) |
Paperwork Hours |
|
$11,900 |
821,000 |
|
|
$1,800 |
82,170 |
|
|
$890 |
98,438 |
|
|
$50 |
50,758 |
|
|
$1.7 |
17,133 |
|
|
$0.06 |
651 |
|
|
Totals |
$14.6 billion |
1 million paperwork hours |
Conclusion
President Trump’s EO will have a profound impact on the regulatory landscape and the nation’s climate change agenda. Deregulation on this scale, more than $14 billion in just one presidential directive, is unseen since the early days of the Reagan Administration. Not just addressing past rules, largely ending the SCC will also make it more difficult to justify new rules that might impede domestic energy development. In order for the administration’s regulatory budget to operate, bombshell deregulatory actions like this EO are likely necessary to achieve neutral cost growth.
As all those solar sites start going bankrupt which were financed with taxpayers money that may or may not have all gone into infrastructure if you catch my meaning.
Pretty soon we’ll be talkin’ real money...
Cool. I’m going to start a zillow search for houses in DC (affluent areas) I will be cool to see the houses go up for sale as these guys need to actually find real jobs.
90% of all government programs are nothing more than employment programs to employ unemployable people. these regulations don’t achieve anything else.
Most of that solar money is in the SEIU and BLM accounts.
I wish my utility company, AZ Public Service, would STOP charging me more for taxes and fees which is more than my electric usage! It’s about 66% more than my usage!!
That sounds like my land line phone bill from AT&T. Almost 50% of the total bill is fees and other charges. Ridiculous.
“90% of all government programs are nothing more than employment programs to employ unemployable people. these regulations don’t achieve anything else.”
90% is too low! Even programs that produce a modicum of positive results, are still first and foremost, jobs programs.
We have a situation currently here in the SF Bay Area where our BART “not so rapid transit system” has been caught using money from a dedicated bond issue passed by the voters solely to provide for capital improvements, to cover operating costs. This from a district that from it’s inception, has had in it’s charter that it’s employees have to make no less than anyone in a similar job anywhere in the country. And the kicker is that the media has found an Asian Janitor in the Powell St. Station who has been taking home in excess of $250,000 per year working “overtime.” Sometimes the guy logged eighteen straight 16 hour days, but when you look at the surveillance videos, he spends most of his time in a utility room. And when asked on camera about the video evidence the female General Manager took of her mike and walked off the set. So yes, it’s all a jobs program.
“That sounds like my land line phone bill from AT&T. Almost 50% of the total bill is fees and other charges. Ridiculous.”
And the other 50% is a ripoff from AT&T! When you are comparing the Government and AT&T it’s hard to figure out which one is the bigger crook!
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