During Barack Obama’s eight years in office, his administration went to great lengths to promote its “global warming” agenda. Through the power of the EPA, the Obama White House issued dozens of regulations that hindered America’s energy sector, putting liberal politics ahead of American jobs and families.
Well, now that President Trump is in office, he is empowering EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to roll back the disastrous policies set forth by the previous administration. On Tuesday, the president will sign an executive order that will “suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.”
EPA’s Pruitt: Trump exec order will ‘set a new course’ on energy https://t.co/VgbjsZn8Pp
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) March 28, 2017
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, Pruitt explained that the president will “set a new course” that is pro-jobs and pro-environment. “It’s going to create jobs in the oil and gas sector. For too long, over the last several years, you’ve had certain industries, certain sectors of our economy that were within the crosshairs of the EPA. That’s not going to happen anymore.”
From Fox News:
As part of the new roll-back, Trump will initiate a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.
The regulation, which was the former president’s signature effort to curb carbon emissions, has been the subject of long-running legal challenges by Republican-led states and those who profit from burning oil, coal and gas.
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In addition to pulling back from the Clean Power Plan, the administration will also lift a 14-month-old moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.
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The order will also chip away at other regulations, including scrapping language on the “social cost” of greenhouse gases. It will initiate a review of efforts to reduce the emission of methane in oil and natural gas production as well as a Bureau of Land Management hydraulic fracturing rule, to determine whether those reflect the president’s policy priorities.
It will also rescind Obama-era executive orders and memoranda, including one that addressed climate change and national security and one that sought to prepare the country for the impacts of climate change.
Unlike the previous administration, President Trump believes you can promote policies that are both pro-environment and pro-energy, it’s not an either-or. Pruitt, who sued the EPA multiple times as the Attorney General of Oklahoma over its burdensome regulatory system, is the perfect person to help transform the agency into one that serves all Americans, not just a few special interests within the environmental community.
Do you agree with the Executive Order that President Trump is set to sign today? Will it help our energy industry overcome the burdensome regulations imposed by the Obama EPA? Share your thoughts below!