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[Tovarisc]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday his agency's plans to withdraw the Clean Power Plan, the sweeping Obama-era rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Pruitt said he will sign the proposed rule Tuesday.

CNN obtained a copy of the leaked proposal to repeal the milestone Clean Power Plan, the outcome of President Donald Trump's executive orders calling for the review of the plan and questions the legality of the original rule.

"Under the interpretation proposed in this notice, the CPP exceeds the EPA's statutory authority and would be repealed," the proposal reads. "The EPA welcomes comment on the legal interpretation addressed in this proposed rulemaking."

The proposal also says the EPA has yet to determine whether it will create an additional rule on the regulation of greenhouse gases.

Under President Barack Obama, the EPA estimated the Clean Power Plan could prevent 2,700 to 6,600 premature deaths and 140,000 to 150,000 asthma attacks in children.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/09/p...tt-clean-power-plan/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw

 

[catotheyounger]

Evil fucks. I was hoping Pruitt's spending would help out him. The longer he is in, the more damage he does.

 

[Tovarisc]

Evil fucks. I was hoping Pruitt's spending would help out him. The longer he is in, the more damage he does.

Didn't watchdog organisations establish nothing in those travels and their costs broke any laws or ethics rules?

 

[Bit-Bit]

Can't we put shit like this to a vote? One administration cannot be given so much power as to change the course of the freakin planet.

 

[Daedardus]

We must protect the environment from illegal interpretations of environmental measures!

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Can't we put shit like this to a vote? One administration cannot be given so much power as to change the course of the freakin planet.

We did

 

[TheRedSnifit]

"Under the interpretation proposed in this notice, the CPP exceeds the EPA's statutory authority and would be repealed,"

If only there was a government body whose job was to determine this.