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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: 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.