Litmus Test For Trump: Black Lungs or Clear Water

The Obama administration scrambled to finish the Stream Protection Act, a set of rules that detail how to enforce environmental protection laws already on the books-- the rules are 1200 pages long and fifteen years in the making (for more detail on the story, listen to the new Planet Money) and so now the question is whether Trump will utilize the rarely used Congressional Review Act to repeal the rules; the last time this was used, President Bush repealed Clinton's Workplace Injury rules and the backlash was fairly ugly . . . so keep an eye on this, as it will be a real litmus test as to just what kind of asshole Trump is going to be . . . and remember, there are two kinds of assholes: people who divide folks into two kinds of assholes and people who don't.
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  1. LeckyJanuary 20, 2017 at 9:44 AM

    A strong opinion piece in the WaPo yday about how every cabinet appointee has a either an inverse ideology of the agency they were chosen to lead or zero knowledge whatsoever of the agency's primary service function. Good times ahead...

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  2. DaveJanuary 20, 2017 at 3:45 PM

    republicans have to own it-- there's no one blocking their agenda, so they have to make things work. should be interesting.

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