Inspector General To Review Dismantling Of Obama-era EPA Emissions Rules

Inspector General To Review Dismantling Of Obama-era EPA Emissions Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General said on Monday it will evaluate the agency's rollback of Obama-era vehicle emissions requirements.

In May, Senator Tom Carper, D-Del., who sits on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked the inspector general's office to investigate whether EPA officials improperly circumvented the Clean Air Act, regulatory and other procedural requirements, citing documents obtained by Carper's office.

The inspector general's office said it would conduct an evaluation to determine if EPA actions were "consistent with requirements, including those pertaining to transparency, record-keeping, and docketing, and followed the EPA’s process for developing final regulatory actions."


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valhallakeyvalhallakey - 7/28/2020 3:51:00 PM
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I whole heartedly agree with emissions standards but disagree with mileage standards.

Oh and for Matt- facts from the Trump administration: in none of the first three years of Trump did he beat ANY of the last three years of Obama in job growth.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/07/obamas-last-three-years-of-job-growth-all-beat-trumps-best-year/#14106e996ba6


Section_31_JTKSection_31_JTK - 7/29/2020 12:36:29 AM
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You had to bring up that meaningless stat again. The country just came off a massive recession. Of course the job market rebounded. It's no different that the 10,000 point gain in the DOW, after the worst fears about Covid came to being. It's a stupid meaningless stat used by those who try to fool the less informed.

Much more relevant would be the historically low unemployment rate for black and hispanic americans. Those are real results, and the result will be enough of a bleed off of those voters to the Trump side that the election will be swung. You can take that to the bank.


valhallakeyvalhallakey - 7/29/2020 1:13:04 AM
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You would be more informed if you would read. I am referring to the last three years of his 2nd term as you can see if you read the article and has nothing to do with the bounce back in 2009-2012. As for historically low unemployment, that decrease in unemployment is like a straight line from 2009 to 2019. What did happen is that $1/2T was dumped into the economy and exploded the annual deficit to over $1.2T. Where are those tea partiers...deficit hawks???


TauronB2GTauronB2G - 7/29/2020 9:22:57 AM
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I’m just here for the Obama bashing... I know that’s what you guys do here.


valhallakeyvalhallakey - 7/29/2020 9:26:25 AM
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It doesn’t get any better than this!


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/29/2020 9:35:35 AM
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Poor triggered Tyrone still smarting over the racial token's failures. If anything this place is full of hate speech and bigotry against Trump, which is OK because he's white, but the half-breed, closet gay must be lauded.


TauronB2GTauronB2G - 7/29/2020 12:31:17 PM
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Aaaaaand there he is douchebag almighty... right on time. Your comments say so much more about you than anyone else. But autopsies obviously likes it because they continue to give your hatred a platform. Get some counseling...you could seriously benefit from it.


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/29/2020 12:43:36 PM
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You said you wanted Obama bashing, so I gave you what you asked for, Tyrone. Then you turn around and bitch about it. What an ungrateful hypocrite you are.


valhallakeyvalhallakey - 7/29/2020 3:08:40 PM
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I enjoy the back and forth on politics here. I’ll even give Trump some credit on things like getting tough on China, their BS trade practices, stealing IP, or demanding IP to be able to sell in the Chinese market. He probably could have coordinated better with Europe on this as they are just as much a victim as we have been. Also the renegotiation of NAFTA was a good move. However he has also been disastrous in other areas such as the deficit, dealing with other “liberal democracies” ...ie our allies, COVID-19 response, climate issues etc...


Section_31_JTKSection_31_JTK - 7/29/2020 8:42:26 PM
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Deficit spending is nothing new, and both parties are guilty as hell. Except the far left takes the money from defending our country and gives it to people who don't want to work. Hey get your free Obama Phone! Let's pour money into pro-abortion organizations like Plan to Kill Your Baby Parenthood.

BTW as Matt pointed out, the editors of Forbes are stridently far left, so I'm not going believe much of what they publish. The far left constantly pushes false information on to an unsuspecting public.

Face it, Trump has been the only president to stand up to China. And yes, he did a wonderful job negotiating NAFTA, unlike Bill Clinton who gave it all away. As for Europe, fuck them. They've been anti-American for the past several decades. Let them fend for themselves because they're screwing us over, just like China is. The Covid response was a massive fuck up by left wing governors. New York and California have the highest number of infections. Cuomo killed countless New Yorkers in nursing homes with his stupid assed policies. Hell, he put that one deranged black dude into a senior home, and the guy beat to death some poor elderly white man.




valhallakeyvalhallakey - 7/30/2020 12:26:22 AM
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So many factual errors here.

Anual Deficit spending https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/

Labor statistics https://www.bls.gov

Yes Bill Clinton signed it but it had been in the works for years starting with Reagan and it was largely passed with Republican Senate support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement

European countries are liberal democracies like the USA and would be natural allies not dictatorships like Russia. Spent 3years in Germany in the Air Force and another 3 years in Czech Republic. I saw no hatred for the US people. Sometimes they did not like our policies like invading Iraq but a lot of people here did not like that either.

COVID response is the left wings massive failure? That's almost too funny. Certainly NY had a big problem as it hit there first and hit hard. There was a lot to be learned. However NY has been surpassed by Florida and Texas who had plenty of time to learn. Now it is sweeping across all the Republican lead southern states.

I have agreed Trump did good on taking China to task and mildly revising the NAFTA treaty that has been more fair to the US.

Also I think his don't mess around too much in the Middle East is wise policy as well.

Obama could have done better in a number of areas as well, trade being a big miss on his part.

Most of those links are from the current administration or credible history in the case of Wikipedia.

I would hope you would care enough to know the facts if you want to have a reasonable discussion.


Section_31_JTKSection_31_JTK - 7/30/2020 4:37:36 PM
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There's a massive distinction between the citizens of the EU, and their government. Their governments are for the most part, liberal as hell, and some are proclaimed socialists. These governments until Trump came along, weren't even paying their fair share (as agreed by treaty) to support NATO. They are aligned with America in only the most superficial of ways today. In fact, their government subsidizes Airbus in their fight with Boeing. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2019/october/us-wins-75-billion-award-airbus#:~:text=In%20May%202011%2C%20the%20Appellate,market%20share%20throughout%20the%20world.

Yes, Covid has been a massive left wing failure. This senior died as a result of a beating from a deranged man that was put into his senior home as a result of Cuomo's policies: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/07/27/detroit-nursing-home-beating-victim-dies-nephew-says/5518824002/

Countless seniors are now dead because of those left wing policies. NY had by far, the highest number of cases of Covid. And it continues to ravage left wing led states. In fact, the left wing media and their associates, have denigrated the use of HCQ as a life saving treatment for Covid - a medication that multiple international studies and many physicians on the front lines have testified to have used successfully in their practices to save patients.


skytopskytop - 7/31/2020 4:27:25 PM
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Another latent failure of the Kenyan Turd odumbo.


MDarringerMDarringer - 7/31/2020 4:41:22 PM
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Why is Obama so ashamed of the white heritage he got from his prostitute mother?


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