EPA's Pruitt vows to continue rolling back rules despite alarming climate report

[dalton99a]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/08/pruitt-says-alarming-climate-report-not-deter-replacement-clean-power-plan/839857001/

Exclusive: EPA's Pruitt vows to continue rolling back rules despite alarming climate report
Ledyard King, USATODAY | Published 6:00 a.m. ET Nov. 8, 2017 | Updated 9:21 a.m. ET Nov. 8, 2017

WASHINGTON — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said a newly released government report that lays most of the blame for the rise of global temperatures to human activity won't deter him from continuing to roll back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, a major rule aimed at combating climate change.

"We’re taking the very necessary step to evaluate our authority under the Clean Air Act and we’ll take steps that are required to issue a subsequent rule. That’s our focus," Pruitt said in an interview with USA TODAY Tuesday. "Does this report have any bearing on that? No it doesn’t. It doesn’t impact the withdrawal and it doesn’t impact the replacement."

The Trump administration last month began the formal process of dismantling the Clean Power Plan rule intended to curb carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. Pruitt, who sued to block it as Oklahoma's attorney general, said Congress never gave the EPA the Obama administration the authority to implement such a sweeping regulation.

In his first public comments since the Trump Administration released the National Climate Assessment Friday, Pruitt said the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last year to suspend the regulation until legal challenges are resolved has "created great uncertainty" about the current regulatory framework.

[Madam45for2923]

1. Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda.

[dalton99a]

2. Absolutely.

[Madam45for2923]

3. Anyone who does not see the difference is either gaslighting or covering their eyes.

Either way they are not useful.

[democratisphere]

4. The 2 political parties are opposites.

redumbliCONs are destroyers while Democrats are actually the builders. drumpf and his administration don't know how to build sh't! Pruitt is committing fraud and must be removed from office.

[MineralMan]

5. Spiteful little asshole!