Some groups want the Trump administration to censure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“The Environmental Protection Agency has a 54-year track record of overregulation and abuse of the public for political purposes,” the American Energy Association said. “These actions protect the environment while increasing energy and industrial production, lowering energy costs, lowering consumer costs, eliminating market distortions, and maintaining accountability.”
The organization is affiliated with the Energy and Environmental Law Institute, Truth in Energy and Climate, and the American Land Council. These groups argue that if the Trump administration follows their recommendations, the United States could achieve a robust economy in the energy sector.
The first 10 actions of the Trump EPA are:
1. Freeze all EPA activities pending review. All activities at EPA, except for actual environmental emergencies and necessary oversight, should be suspended pending review for legality, waste, fraud, abuse, and consistency with management policies and priorities. is. Prohibits employees from deleting and destroying documents and communications related to agency activities, including those stored in electronic format on agency or personal devices.
2. Prohibit EPA staff from communicating with outside group staff about non-emergency EPA activities unless authorized by the new administration. EPA employees should be prohibited from “resisting” or interfering with the new administration and its policies without explicit permission from the Administrator. Employees should be prohibited from communicating about agency activities on their personal devices.
3. Fire all external scientific advisors. All members of the agency’s external advisory committees should be immediately fired. The process of redeploying the legally mandated External Advisory Committee should begin immediately.
4. Review air quality and emission standards for traditional pollutants. Initiate rulemaking to reduce needlessly burdensome air quality regulations for fine particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen oxides, and various air toxics that have been strengthened under the Biden administration. 5. End electric vehicle mandates and other agency programs to promote electric vehicles. Eliminate greenhouse gas emission standards for automobiles.
6. Stop government agencies from participating in climate change. Retract findings regarding the various dangers associated with greenhouse gases. Repeal power plant regulations. Discontinue the use of the “social cost of carbon” indicator. Discontinue climate-related programs and advocacy on government websites and social media.
7. Reform the definition of “Water of the United States” (WOTUS). Restores a clear and limited definition of wetlands regulations, consistent with the original limited intent of the Clean Water Act.
8. Reform EPA’s science, risk assessment, risk communication, and cost-benefit analysis. Revise EPA’s risk assessments, guidelines, and regulatory decisions to focus on real-world exposures and unrealistic worst-case scenarios. Brings transparency to EPA’s science and risk activities by requiring disclosure of all science policy decisions. The data will be used as a basis for regulation and will be required to be made publicly available during rulemaking. A cost-benefit analysis based on actual and demonstrable costs and benefits and imagined costs and benefits is required.
9. Eliminate the Office of Environmental Justice and all environmental justice programs. Eliminate the pointless Office of Environmental Justice and related activities. Poor people need well-paying jobs, not community blackmail.
10. Resolve lawsuits. Let’s stop filing lawsuits that go against administrative policy. Ending litigation and settlement activities and canceling litigation and settlement agreements serve as de facto regulations.
