EPA emerges as major target after Trump solicits policy advice from industry

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Juliet Eilperin April 16 at 3:07 PM

Just days after taking office, President Trump invited American manufacturers to recommend ways the government could cut regulations and make it easier for companies to get their projects approved.

Industry leaders responded with scores of suggestions that paint the clearest picture yet of the dramatic series of steps that Trump officials are likely to take in overhauling federal policies, especially those designed to advance environmental protection and safeguard worker rights.

Those clues are embedded in the 168 comments submitted to the government after Trump signed a presidential memorandum Jan. 24 instructing the Commerce Department to figure out how to ease permitting and trim regulations with the aim of boosting domestic manufacturing. The Environmental Protection Agency has emerged as the primary target in these comments, accounting for nearly half, with the Labor Department in second place as the subject of more than a fifth, according to a Commerce Department analysis.

Among the notable items on industry’s to-do list:

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[Roy Rolling]

1. Lower the bar

That is what makes America UN-great--- relaxing standards. Weak and unprofitable companies who are losers in the free market want to ease the rules to make it easier for them to profit from shoddy products that destroy the environment or business models that exploit their employees. Ease the rules instead of investing in innovation and 2017 technology/infrastructure.

If a company can't survive under the rules demanded by all Americans, rules that say "don't destroy the land and air we all need", it should go bankrupt. Find another line of work in 2017, don't drag America back to smoky and dangerous 1890 because your company can only pay you if it poisons MY air and water.

[Turbineguy]

2. And after the EPA comes

OSHA.

[Dustlawyer]

5. They have already started on tort reform as well.

They have recently passed 5 tort reform measures to further limit your ability to hold corporations accountable for all of the harm they are about to do!

[Turbineguy]

6. That was the whole idea about globalization...

to drag 3rd world countries upward. Instead, we will get dragged down.

[mtngirl47]

3. Third world---Here we come! n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Drumpf's snorting too much coal dust.