The W(why)TF did Trump do this? thread

This man's impact on our country is an incredible disaster. He seems to search for new ways to role back decades of progress on a host of fronts. Here is another instance. From the BBC:



Trump rolls back US water pollution controls
The Trump administration is set to scrap protections for America's streams and wetlands, repealing Barack Obama's Waters of the United States regulation.

The move, expected Thursday, will dismantle federal protections for more than half of wetlands and hundreds of small waterways in the US.

The White House says the change will be a victory for American farmers. But critics say the change will be destructive - part of Mr Trump's wider assault on environmental protections.

Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades.

The administration's new rules, expected to be finalized today, replace the Waters of the United States regulations put in place during the Obama administration. Mr Trump vowed as soon as he took office to repeal the regulations. The president has angered environmental activists and conservationists since he took office by siding with the agriculture and mining industries in rolling back environmental protections. Speaking at the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention in Texas on Sunday, the president called the existing waterways rules "disastrous".

"That was a rule that basically took your property away from you," he told the assembled farmers. The White House says that farmers will be a primary beneficiary of the change. Farmers rejected the protections, claiming they were too broad and required the industry to go to great lengths to protect small bodies of water on their properties.

But the administration's own data shows that real estate developers and those in other non-farming industries are poised reap the greatest rewards was the president's rollback, by applying for permits to encroach on previously protected waterways, the Associated Press reported.

The new rules are already facing court challenges from environmental groups and Democratic-led states. "This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen," Blan Holman, a federal water policy specialist at the Southern Environmental Law Center, told the New York Times.

"This puts drinking water for millions of Americans at risk of contamination from unregulated pollution. This is not just undoing the Obama rule. This is stripping away protections that were put in place in the '70s and '80s that Americans have relied on for their health," he said.

The scrapping of these waterways regulations is part of a much broader environmental rollback directed by the president, who has appealed for electoral support from America's beleaguered mining and farming communities.

Since taking office, Mr Trump has slashed regulations on oil and gas development, weakened fuel emission standards for automobiles and proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act - a law credited with keeping hundreds of species from going extinct.

Earlier this month, while announcing other changes to environmental policy, Mr Trump criticized existing "job-killing regulations", while insisting the US would maintain "world-class standards of environmental protection".

"We have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water on Earth," he said.

The US is the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases. A report found carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4% in 2018 - the largest spike in eight years - after three years of decline.

 

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Believe me, I am not a defender of Trump or his family, however, his kids meet tons of people throughout their lives. They get their photos taken with tons of people at various events. To assume that someone that meets and socially interacts with as many people as they do (have) throughout their lives, will necessarily remember them is false.

 

Believe me, I am not a defender of Trump or his family, however, his kids meet tons of people throughout their lives. They get their photos taken with tons of people at various events. To assume that someone that meets and socially interacts with as many people as they do (have) throughout their lives, will necessarily remember them is false.[/QUOTE]

I know you are not defending him, I just don't believe it's the same as you and Lyle Lovett.

This guy was well known in political circles and he has been in the news, also Erick does not do as much as Donald Jr.

Also this is at several different events.

Anyway not that big of a deal.

 

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No worries, just wait a bit and Os will come and tell us why some blog tells him why this is all a great idea.

 

https://reason.com/2020/01/24/trump...ions-on-puddles-dry-stream-beds-some-ditches/

Buck, you should also really try to get a copy of this paper, maybe you can get the book through interlibrary loan at your local library.

"Towards a pragmatic approach to definition: 'Wetlands' and the politics of meaning" by
Edward Schiappa, In Andrew Light & Eric Katz (eds.), Environmental Pragmatism. Routledge. pp. 209--230 (1996)

 

Kushner looks like that one Indiana Jones Nazi halfway through his face melting off.

 

There is no end to the madness of trump's "administration."

 

Landmines are no ****ing joke; especially with worse storms and flooding due to climate change.

I remember reading about Balkan war era landmines that regularly get displaced during intense storms.