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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: 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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