U.S. EPA staff told to prepare for Trump executive orders: sources

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: Reuters

Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been told that President Donald Trump is preparing a handful of executive orders to reshape the agency, to be signed once a new administrator is confirmed, two sources who attended the meeting told Reuters on Wednesday.

A senior EPA official who had been briefed by members of the Trump administration mentioned the executive orders at a meeting of staffers in the EPA's Office of General Counsel on Tuesday, but did not provide details about what the orders would say, said the sources, who asked not to be named.

"It was just a heads-up to expect some executive orders, that's it," one of the sources said.

The second source said attendees at the meeting were told Trump would sign between two and five executive orders.

Trump administration officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump has promised to cut U.S. environmental rules - including those ushered in by former President Barack Obama targeting carbon dioxide emissions - as a way to bolster the drilling and coal mining industries, but has vowed to do so without compromising air and water quality.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15U2MW

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This intentional destruction of the country and our environment wont stop

if Fuckface is impeached.

Pence will continue down this road.

They are dumb people, they dont understand science and they dont care.

[2naSalit]

3. Self fulfilling prophecy of the rapture...

they can't have their rapture if we don't all die too.

[Fred Sanders]

6. If the planet is uninhabitable will God clean up the environment enough for the raptured to live in?

[2naSalit]

8. Don't think so...

according to their prophecy they are s'posed to got o some place called hevvin, the mormons - well the men in that crowd - are s'posed to get their own planets with thousands of virgins to populate with.

[DK504]

14. Ya know...

if these maniacs want to get blown up, why can't they got out to the middle of the ocean and blow themselves sky high. Leave me the hell alone. Geez.

[2naSalit]

19. I agree...

But I would prefer they leave the planet, they'd still mess up the biosphere by trashing out the ocean... besides, according to their lame mindset, the whole world has to come to an end for them to be saved for eternity... are they in for a big disappointment.

[Dustlawyer]

9. I am more cynical, I believe they know Climate Change is real, but their own

personal ambition and greed keep them cashing the oil industries checks!

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Which means they do not care if their grandchildren are killed by it, that I believe.

[meadowlander]

20. Their grandchildren have access to survivalist bunkers in remote locations

near the last of the potable water.

It's your grandchildren they don't care about killing.

[snort]

21. This

[Angry Dragon]

2. not good

[Marthe48]

4. download the info before it disappears!

The more people who help, the more EPA information we'll save.

[Doreen]

5. Yup, the aroma of Tacoma is on its way back among other things.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. "Reshape the agency?"

More like destroy it.

[MBS]

12. yeah.

[not fooled]

11. Even more evidence

that the kochs are running the country. This is their agenda. dump doesn't have any knowledge of policy or vision for the nation. It's being handed to him by the Heritage Foundation and other koch fronts.

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Clean air and water are too imbedded now

Not too long ago there was a story in the local paper about people in one of PA's rural and lightly populated counties being concerned about fracking wrecking their water, etc. and how they didn't want wells in their town. These are solid R voters, too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Incoming. Part of Shock & Awe. They'll try to play the scandal against this to divert attention.

Divert attention from this or from the scandal or so muddy the waters that it the Republicon sharks who want to dump Trump to install Pence won't be able to smell the blood. And Democrats will be busy on all fronts all at once.

[SeattleVet]

16. I've been monitoring he EPA website since Jan. 20th

So far there have been few, if any changes made. There are still sections on Climate Change (and the human causes), industrial pollution, etc.

Having said that, the truly scary part is that NONE of the site appears to have been updated since Doomsday (the Inauguration). Most of the various EPA sections have blogs - ALL blog entries that I have been able to find stop at January 19; none of the departmental blogs have had any new entries since then.

The EPA was one of the 'priority' sites for scientists archiving data offshore and in multiple places, waiting for the upcoming purge.

[nikibatts]

17. Patriotic and loyal civil servants are the only thing between total destruction of our country and

saving us from the would-be fascist onslaught heading our way.

[logosoco]

18. The environment of the United States should NEVER be overseen by an

administration that is headed by someone who lives in a gilt tower.