Congressional Republicans, voting party line, will end an important provision protecting streams and rivers from coal waste, and a requirement that oil companies report payments to Foreign Governments. The former is blatant hippie punching anti environmental evil. The latter is a fully expected out come if you elect a Russian puppet president, and appoint a Secretary of state whose main job will be to exploit Russian oil fields. So, if that happened, and this happened, then everything is falling nicely into place for the oligarchs, both American and otherwise.
The ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources urged the committee's chairman to have Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke testify before the panel "as soon as possible" following President Trump's proposed $1.5 billion budget cut to DOI.
Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
President Biden. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
President Biden taking the oath of office at the Capitol in January. Francis Chung/E&E News
President Biden faced Capitol Hill turmoil unlike anything in recent history during his first 100 days in the Oval Office with thin margins in both chambers and political upheaval confronting his ambitious energy and environmental agenda.
Outgoing President Trump s supporters had stormed the Capitol in a democracy-defying riot just 14 days before Biden s inauguration. It led directly to a second impeachment trial for Trump, events that have only deepened political divides on the Hill.
According to Graham, attempts at convicting Trump after he has left office would destroy the presidency itself. I know you hate Trump but please pullback before we set in motion the destruction of the presidency by never-ending impeachments based on lack of due process and political retribution as the motive, he continued. You re about to set in motion a historical precedent that will put at risk every future president. We re doing a lot of damage to the country because people hate Trump. Knock it off.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (R) listens to U.S. President Donald Trump make an announcement regarding the First Step Act , prison reform bill, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on November 14, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Fossil-focused policies failed to hit brash energy goals Source: By Lesley Clark, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
President Trump exiting Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. Tia Dufour/White House/Flickr
Donald Trump promised American energy dominance when he ran for president, offering a full-throttle embrace of coal, oil and gas and a pledge to hack away at a regulatory thicket he said hampered production.
In office, Trump took aim at Obama-era regulations, rolling back and replacing efforts to make power plants cleaner, setting time limits on environmental reviews for federal projects, bypassing deadlines to upgrade energy efficiency standards and supporting a Republican-led Congress in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.