Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Among many things that former head of the EPA Scott Pruitt did during his time at the agency was to cease enforcement of emissions standards for so-called "Glider" trucks. Gliders are new heavy truck chassis that have older, less technologically advanced and emissions-compliant engines installed into them.
The Obama administration sought to close the loopholes that allow gliders to be built and sold in significant numbers in an effort to curb their pollution but Pruitt opted to toss that aside in the name of business. We've covered the glider situation in the past, but the big news is that the new acting head of the EPA, a former coal lobbyist, has moved to reinstate the Obama regulations after a court insisted that they be enforced once again.
[...] Many trucking fleets like gliders because they are often cheaper to maintain and run than modern trucks, but the amount of pollutants that they emit can be hundreds of times more than the federal standards would allow. The laws that permitted gliders to be built in the first place were designed primarily to reduce the number of wrecked trucks going into scrap yards, instead giving their engines new homes. That kind of backfired.
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:19AM (13 children)
These things are bad, we all agree. But Trump and Pruitt see the money in them, so they make a loophole. Pruitt's scandals catch up to him, he has to resign. New guy comes in, figgur he's a Pruitt clone. But no, he lets the loophole be closed.
I'm confused. Who bribed who here? Where did the money come from? How did rational reasoning come out of this administration?
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Sulla on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:40AM (1 child)
A lot of Trumps early picks were not good. He picked strong men with free thought that he knew personally and hoped it would work. I think he has a team that while they don't always agree with him they find ways to make it work. Pompeo, Mattis, Kelly, Navarro. Do most suck? Yeah. But i have been very happy with some of the picks, pompeo in particular has really shined and seems to have stepped away from warmongering.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:44AM
I think he's using the strategy we used for WWII: Hire the generals you like, and the ones who suck get immediately removed and another put in their place until a good job was being done in that region. Looks kinda bad from a personnel perspective, but makes a lot more sense when you think about it as if it were a medication adjustment.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @02:00AM
Think of the horrors if they succeed.
Here's hoping they get run over by their own trucks.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:10AM (2 children)
Blind squirrels... nuts...
He's not evil, or terribly complex, just kinda random on top of a predictable agenda for a trust fund baby born in the late 1940s.
With that random come some good things once in a while. Plus, most of what comes out of his administration isn't really coming from him at all, but the random collection of people he surrounds himself with, another source of chaos that can be counted on to do something on the good side, occasionally.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday July 30 2018, @12:31AM (1 child)
He's not where near as "not-evil" as you describe him, but I can accept that much of his implementation choices are driven by people he chooses to surround himself with. But he chose to surround himself with them because he was an evil bastard. They're doing the implementation because he's also incompetent.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 30 2018, @02:42AM
I'd say it's simpler, and sadder, than that. He chose to surround himself with them because they suck up to his ego, he neither understands nor controls them, they understand and control him
Narcissistic is not evil, evil has a much more focused agenda and doesn't go chasing around like: "oh the poor children separated from their families, we've got to do something about that" (to distract the media from the next stinking black pit of ooze.) The end results can be similar, but I'd rather focus my hate on the incompetence and ignorance of the issues, instead of believing he's specifically out to do bad things - the bad things are just inevitable consequences that he doesn't care about.
It's too early for a 2020 victory lap, but this extreme level of circus foolery is a very good way to damage whatever political group you've associated yourself with - it may help to get the pendulum swinging back in some important areas, at least I hope it will.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:41AM
Yeah, let's be all Nazi about drinking straws and truck engines while unruly Blacks and Mexicans are allowed to get away with rape and murder because muh Whyte priviledge.
The psychotic liberals here are doubling-down on their madness. It will get worse before it gets better, but it will get better, at least for everybody else besides San Francisco and L.A.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ilPapa on Sunday July 29 2018, @04:34AM (1 child)
Give it a minute. Trump will straighten out this misunderstanding.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @09:09AM
So this time Pres T. will blame .... rolls random global dice .... Bosnia!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Sunday July 29 2018, @09:38AM
You've got that somewhat wrong, what it should say is:
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Sunday July 29 2018, @05:31PM (2 children)
It's simple, Pruitt has ties to big oil and he wanted to help the oil industry. The new guy is a lobbyist for the coal industry and doesn't care about oil. Expect a lot of coal regulations to go by the wayside.
Drain the swamp, my ass! The foxes are guarding the hen house with this morality-free sociopathic administration.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 29 2018, @10:51PM (1 child)
That can't be right, surely?
I've just read Ethanol-fueled's comment above and apparently it's all the liberals fault.
Oh, and San Francisco is going to fall into the sea (or something).
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:11PM
My threshold is set to zero, so I rarely see his insanity.
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