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hatrack

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Tue Jun 4, 2019, 07:38 AM Jun 2019

Andrew Wheeler Whines About How Unfair The Press Is, Not Covering EPA's Great Work Under Trump

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler accused the media Monday of misleading the public by not highlighting the agency’s important environmental achievements.

“The media does a disservice to the American public and sound policy making by not informing the progress we’ve made,” Wheeler said Monday at a luncheon at the National Press Club.

Directing his comments specifically to the reporters present, Wheeler a former energy lobbyist who has overseen various regulatory rollbacks at EPA, said it was the press’ responsibility to change the public perception that energy and environment issues were getting worse, not better, across the country.

“Every year since 2001 Gallup has conducted polling on the same question: Do you think the quality of the environment in the country as a whole is getting better or getting worse? Every year since 2001 more people have said, ‘Getting worse than getting better'” Wheeler said. “We need to fix this perception and we need the help of the press. The public needs to know how far we’ve come as a nation protecting the environment.”

Ed. - Yes, as always, it's not what conservatives do wrong, it's the messaging. Got it.

He spoke of the agency’s success, since its establishment nearly half a century ago, in lowering particulate matter in the air and reducing CO2 emissions, listing accomplishments achieved under multiple government administrations. The comments came as he defended his own recent decisions, made under President Trump, to lower emissions standards for cars, roll back standards on mercury air pollution, and suggest a standard for perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, that is 10-50 times higher than scientists suggest.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/446710-epa-head-says-media-does-a-disservice-by-not-promoting-agencys

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84 environmental rules on the way out under Trump mercuryblues Jun 2019 #1

mercuryblues

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1. 84 environmental rules on the way out under Trump
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 08:48 AM
Jun 2019
Air pollution and emissions
COMPLETED
1. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions. Environmental Protection Agency.

2. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations. Interior Department.

3. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters. EPA.

4. Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators. EPA.

5. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles traveling on federal highways. Transportation Department.

6. Reverted to a weaker 2009 pollution permitting program for new power plants and expansions. EPA.

7. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities. EPA.

8. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the “social cost of carbon” that rule-makers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Executive order.

9. Withdrew guidance that federal agencies include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews. Executive order; Council on Environmental Quality.

10. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15% ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.) EPA.

More at:
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/84-environmental-rules-on-the-way-out-under-trump/


By all means, let's give them the media coverage
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