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Posted on 11/25/2016 6:09:57 PM PST by Innovative
President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to dismantle many of the signature policies put in place by the Obama administration to fight the effects of climate change. During the campaign, he threatened, among other things, to kill the Clean Power Plan, a set of rules to reduce emissions from power plants. He has also taken aim at new regulations to limit methane leaks from wells and pipelines. And members of his transition team have suggested that he may reduce or eliminate basic climate research at NASA or other agencies.
If he follows through, most of these moves will be opposed by environmental groups, by Democrats in Congress and perhaps even by some Republicans. But Mr. Trump will have several tools to begin nullifying the Obama climate agenda.
One of them is the little-known Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a small outpost within the executive branch that has, since the Clinton administration, been the last stop for many regulations before they go into effect.
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Since Obamatard did not bother to get any actual laws passed it should be relatively easy for Trump to undo his garbage.
Good!
Obama and his cronies already made their $$$ off of climate change.
His legacy was only one of theft posing as a weather God
“And members of his transition team have suggested that he may reduce or eliminate basic climate research at NASA or other agencies. “
That’s Great! I’ve been saying for years: NASA is off-mission. Fire all NASA climate scientists and replace them with rocket scientists.
Yes. Now that the rats know that pasty is ending, they are getting desperate.
If Mr. Trump does decide to withdraw from the Paris agreement, he will find it difficult: The accord went into force this month.
I hope you are correct but I will just be hopefully optimistic.
There are huge private interest involved in the criminal enterprise that is responsible for the Global Warming industrial complex.
You’ll be happy to see this:
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3497878/postsou;
Yes thank you, I did see that.
It’s about time. And some of them, Santer, Mann, Karl,et al need to be investigated.
In the case of Mass v EPA, SCOTUS ruled that CO2 is a pollutant(2007) and if EPA determined there was a risk, then EPA should regulate CO2 with the Clean Air Act. EPA needed nothing from Congress.
Everybody agreed that it would be better if Congress preempted EPA and pass legislation to regulate CO2 so they tried in 2009 and 2010 with cap and trade but failed.
So in 2010 Obama would move forward with using the Clean Air Act to regulate.
Its important to recognize that they treated mobile sources and stationary sources separately. Tailpipe CO2 would be reduced by raising the CAFE standards with a negotiated agreement and EPA signed off on that.
So Obama would issue his first CO2 regs for stationary sources, which are mainly power plants but included cement kilns and steel mills. Anything that emitted 100,000 tons of CO2 per year.
The first regs in 2010 would apply only to new permits.
This set off numerous lawsuits with many, many plaintiffs and the case had to go all the way to SCOTUS, who ruled for Obama in 2014.
About that same time, in 2014, Obama would issue his second set of CO2 regs and these applied to existing permits and only power plants. These regs are called the Clean Power Plan
This set off numerous lawsuits with many, many plaintiffs, who were able to get a stay to prevent Obama from implementing until the courts handed down a decision. Which is where it stands. The DC Court has heard the case and will rule in 2017, after which it will go to SCOTUS.
Trump has options but unless SCOTUS reverses its 2007 decision the enviros will sue.
If the GOP is wise, they need to implement a mild carbon tax while they control the govt. Even Exxon is agitating for a carbon tax.
Another problem has arisen with the Clean Power Plan. Even though the courts have issued a stay preventing EPA from implementing the Clean Power Plan until the courts rule, numerous states and tribes(democrats) want to implement the Clean Power Plan and have insisted that the EPA assist them and move forward with implementing the Clean Power, if only for their states.
So have Trump’s EPA head rule CO2 is not a risk.
“You’ll be happy to see this:Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3497878/postsou;";
Trump’s people also need to check NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center that was caught cherry picking data points to support their reported political pseudo-science study proving climate change [formerly known as anthropogenic global warming].
Additionally, Trump’s people should investigate the money that is going into making government occupied buildings green, and paying to have them LEED certified as such, which is causing the building costs to far exceed any purported energy savings over time. This is a big push by the General Services Administration and the US Green Building Council.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design
This is ridiculous.
CO2 is not a pollutant.
Hopefully Trump will get some sane Justices in there to reverse such a stupid and destructive court decision.
If Exxon is saying things like you report, it is only because they think it is good PR, and because they probably thought The Corruption would win. Businesses are utterly pragmatic. This should IN NO WAY BE CONFUSED WITH EXXON ACTUALLY AGREEING WITH THE HOAX.
The big test of will is going to be dumping the ethanol subsidy and mandate.
Lots of ‘Farmers’ got rich with that crap and still pretend to be salt-of-the-earth types.
The states need to start ignoring stupid SCOTUS BS.
GOOD!
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NO CO2 tax. Humans produce CO2. No regulation of human respiration .
Defund the Left wherever they suck from the teat of Govt.
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