The rules that r already promulgated r on the books but the truth is they haven’t been enforced for awhile real well. I worked in it and saw a lot of laxity by state officials
I didn’t say I wanted him to remove it. I’m saying he will assume the power to remove it if he doesn’t like it. That goes for anything: laws, building, animals, people
That's right. I mean when you have complete immunity, a corrupt scotus, and are evil...the clean air act is a formality and a matter of time before its gone
That’s absolutely right. And after the SCt decided Loper Bright and gutted the Chevron doctrine, they’ve given themselves the power to do damn near anything they want.
Why not? He will have a majority in Congress, majority in the Senate and the White House. The only thing that can stop him is the filibuster rule in the Senate. The Republicans will have no problem pissing all over that rule if it suits them.
Trump cannot remove the CAA nor can SCOTUS. Congress could hypothetically repeal it but they won’t. The CAA had and still has broad bipartisan support. What Trump can do is remove/slow/discourage rules related to climate change and GHGs. Even some of that is likely to be litigated.
The core of air quality regs will be fine but we will again slip backwards on climate action as a country. To keep this from happening every time a conservative admin comes in, what we need is for Congress to delegate statutory authority over regulating GHGs to EPA. Vote in your midterms.
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Lots of people are cheering that Republicans will have a razor-thin majority in the House—
but that assumes the Democrats won’t have a few like Manchin and Sinema voting the other way.
And what about those who run as D and then switch parties?