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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing agencies to look for ways to speed up building of highways and other major projects by scaling back environmental reviews, invoking special powers he has under the coronavirus emergency.
Separately Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency formally proposed overhauling how the agency evaluates new rules on air pollutants, a move critics say will make it tougher to enact limits on dangerous and climate-changing emissions in the future.
“Unnecessary delays in timely agency actions will deny our citizens opportunities for jobs and economic security and will hinder our economic recovery from the national emergency, keeping millions of Americans out of work,” it states.
Cutting regulations has been a hallmark of Trump’s presidency and conservative groups and lawmakers have been encouraging him to keep it up.
“Time is money, so eliminating delays that hold up or kill projects will have the same impact as increasing funding, and it will let workers get back on the job improving our infrastructure,” said Rep. Sam Graves, the ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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Nothing is a coincidence. After US prosperity peaked in 1970, and they rigged the US system to increase imports, increase immigrants, and export jobs at the same, time they created the environmental jobs economy during Nixon. Environmental jobs (mentally good) are just more over head cost jobs.
Produce nothing and cost money unnecessarily. Well fare jobs. There was never anything wrong the environment until recently. Our air globally is polluted with GERMS VIRUSES. And all those stupid check engine lite etc rules did nothing to stop GERMS, the biggest environmental problem.
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President Trump is directing federal agencies to bypass requirements of some of the country’s most significant environmental laws. The stated goal is to fast-track big new infrastructure projects to boost the economy, which has been hit hard by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. But critics question the legality of the move, and say it would shut down input from those affected by such projects.
Trump’s order directs federal agencies to look for ways to avoid time-consuming processes and build transportation and energy infrastructure, including highways, oil and gas pipelines, and fossil fuel export terminals.