On His Way Out the Door, Scott Pruitt Says a Final ‘Fuck You’ to the Environment

[Nomad]

And yet Repugnants still pretend like they don't understand why decent people hate them...

On His Way Out the Door, Scott Pruitt Says a Final ‘Fuck You’ to the Environment

In his last day on the job as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, Scott Pruitt confirmed that he shouldn’t have been within a million miles of the agency tasked with keeping the environment we all live in safe.

President Donald Trump announced Pruitt’s resignation on Thursday, praising the “outstanding job” of perhaps the second most corrupt official in the administration—which says a lot, considering the competition. But Pruitt had one final order of business to tend to, the result of which will most certainly contribute to more asthma and lung cancer cases.

According to The New York Times:

In the final hours of Scott Pruitt’s tenure as administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to effectively grant a loophole that will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produces as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls.

The decision to benefit the makers of super polluting freight trucks followed what the newspaper described as “intense lobbying” by manufacturers, and the two people to blame are Pruitt and new acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler.

According to the report, the EPA will not enforce an annual cap on so-called “glider” trucks that had been in place since January, and manufacturers will be allowed to return to previous production rates—about 10,000 trucks per year, according to 2015 figures. The cap had been at 300 gliders per manufacturer.

An EPA spokeswoman told the Times:

“The Agency is exercising its enforcement discretion in 2018 and 2019,” Molly Block, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement late Friday, meaning that it is notifying glider manufacturers that even though the limit legally remains in place, the companies can effectively ignore it.

The agency, she said, is also considering formally delaying the 300-unit cap until December 2019 — by which point it hopes to have permanently repealed the cap.

Understandably, advocates for stronger environmental protections are furious, particularly since reducing air pollution caused by diesel trucks has had bipartisan support for decades, the newspaper noted.

“Pruitt and Wheeler are creating a loophole for super polluting freight trucks that will fill our children’s lungs with toxic diesel pollution, ignoring public comments from moms and leading businesses across the country,” Environmental Defense Fund general counsel Vickie Patton told the Times.

While this latest development is troubling, it isn’t particularly surprising given Pruitt’s open-door policy at the EPA for lobbyistsrepresenting industries the agency is supposed to be regulating. Last week, emails obtained from a public records lawsuit demonstrated just how close Pruitt and his cronies at the EPA are to industry lobbyists. When “lobbyists ask top EPA officials to jump, the answer is often ‘how high,’” the Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fischer told The Washington Post.

[kudzu]

Why would anyone do this?

[cancel2 2022]

More hysterical bullshit from SoMad!!

Whether it’s the ethics allegations against Pruitt or the investigations into how emissions studies were conducted, it is all distracting from the EPA’s reasoning behind the proposal to repeal emissions requirements for gliders.

The proposed rule doesn’t cite a study for its reason to remove the requirements. Instead, the reasoning was extremely simplistic. The EPA said glider vehicles should not be defined as new vehicles. Based on that interpretation, EPA would lack authority to regulate glider vehicles, glider engines and glider kits.
“EPA is proposing to interpret ‘“new motor vehicle’” … as not including glider vehicles,” the proposed rule stated. “This is a reasonable interpretation – and commonsense would agree – insofar as it takes account of the reality that significant elements of a glider vehicle (including the engine and transmission) are previously owned components.”


That’s it in a nutshell. Everything else is just background noise.


The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs estimated in mid-May the repeal would become a final rule in May 2018. However, the proposal has seen no movement. When a decision is made, hopefully it will be based on EPA’s proposed interpretation that gliders aren’t new vehicles rather than all of the distractions surrounding Pruitt and the agency.



https://tandemthoughts.landlinemag.c...ider-proposal/

[kudzu]

Late last year, Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would roll back emission standards and other rules for glider vehicles, glider engines, and glider kits. Gliders are wrecked or not roadworthy vehicles that are fixed up with separate engines and transmissions.

This rulemaking was proposed because the Pruitt EPA interpreted the Clean Air Act to not include gliders under its definition of “new motor vehicles” or “incomplete motor vehicles.”

Unfortunately, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) struck down this proposed rulemaking. OMB claimed the EPA required a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for this rulemaking in order for it to be put into effect.

The Posey initiative urges OMB to waive this requirement for this proposed rule. The initiative also stipulates that there should, in actuality, be no need for such an analysis, as this is a deregulatory effort. Delaying such a deregulatory effort could jeopardize 22,000 jobs and cost the economy over a billion dollars.

We are asking for your support of Rep. Posey’s initiative as well. By signing onto the letter attached that his office has drafted to send to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, Congress can play a key role in eliminating regulatory overreach and cutting red tape that stifles the American economy.

Sincerely,

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/...regulation-epa

[Irish Exit]

Why would anyone do this?

Somebody has to deliver your i-phone

[cancel2 2022]

Late last year, Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would roll back emission standards and other rules for glider vehicles, glider engines, and glider kits. Gliders are wrecked or not roadworthy vehicles that are fixed up with separate engines and transmissions.

This rulemaking was proposed because the Pruitt EPA interpreted the Clean Air Act to not include gliders under its definition of “new motor vehicles” or “incomplete motor vehicles.”

Unfortunately, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) struck down this proposed rulemaking. OMB claimed the EPA required a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for this rulemaking in order for it to be put into effect.

The Posey initiative urges OMB to waive this requirement for this proposed rule. The initiative also stipulates that there should, in actuality, be no need for such an analysis, as this is a deregulatory effort. Delaying such a deregulatory effort could jeopardize 22,000 jobs and cost the economy over a billion dollars.

We are asking for your support of Rep. Posey’s initiative as well. By signing onto the letter attached that his office has drafted to send to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, Congress can play a key role in eliminating regulatory overreach and cutting red tape that stifles the American economy.

Sincerely,

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/...regulation-epa

Hysterical bullshit, so a few thousand trucks are not to have hugely expensive new regulations imposed on them, big deal!!

[kudzu]

Hysterical bullshit, so a few thousand trucks are not to have hugely expensive new regulations imposed on them, big deal!!

In our continuing efforts to roll back regulatory red tape, FreedomWorks is urging members of Congress to sign onto an initiative started by Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.).

[ThatOwlWoman]

In our continuing efforts to roll back regulatory red tape, FreedomWorks is urging members of Congress to sign onto an initiative started by Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.).

We can't get Drumpf out of there fast enough.

It's funny that they're SO CONCERNED about a measly 22,000 jobs -- yet tariffs which will cost thousands and thousands more jobs are okay.

[Legion]

And yet Repugnants still pretend like they don't understand why decent people hate them...

If it triggers a few fatal liberal heart attacks due to apoplexy, the environment wins since their carbon footprint will be erased. Could be a win for Mother Gaia!

[Legion]

We can't get Drumpf out of there fast enough.

Will you rise up?

I am waiting.

[Legion]

In our continuing efforts to roll back regulatory red tape, FreedomWorks is urging members of Congress to sign onto an initiative started by Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.).

So? Oh, wait, are you suggesting that means anything relevant?

[Legion]

Late last year, Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would roll back emission standards and other rules for glider vehicles, glider engines, and glider kits. Gliders are wrecked or not roadworthy vehicles that are fixed up with separate engines and transmissions. This rulemaking was proposed because the Pruitt EPA interpreted the Clean Air Act to not include gliders under its definition of “new motor vehicles” or “incomplete motor vehicles.” Unfortunately, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) struck down this proposed rulemaking. OMB claimed the EPA required a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for this rulemaking in order for it to be put into effect. The Posey initiative urges OMB to waive this requirement for this proposed rule. The initiative also stipulates that there should, in actuality, be no need for such an analysis, as this is a deregulatory effort. Delaying such a deregulatory effort could jeopardize 22,000 jobs and cost the economy over a billion dollars. We are asking for your support of Rep. Posey’s initiative as well. By signing onto the letter attached that his office has drafted to send to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, Congress can play a key role in eliminating regulatory overreach and cutting red tape that stifles the American economy. Sincerely,

So? How about "no"?

[Legion]

Hysterical bullshit, so a few thousand trucks are not to have hugely expensive new regulations imposed on them, big deal!!

If it triggers this much liberal angst, it can't be a bad thing, can it?

I can't take warmists who use electricity seriously anyway. If they believed their own alarmist claptrap they would have offed themselves to "save the planet" by now, or at least retreated into the bush to live the green life.

[Legion]

Why would anyone do this?

To engender and promote more hysteria from people like you?

It's worked a treat, I must say.

[PostmodernProphet]

end the war on rat rods......