WHITE HOUSE: Bob Murray drafted six orders on coal, climate for Trump

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Source: E&E News

WHITE HOUSE

Bob Murray drafted 6 orders on coal, climate for Trump

Hannah Northey and Benjamin Storrow, E&E News reporters
Greenwire: June 6, 2018 at 5:24 PM

This story was updated at 6:10 p.m. EDT.

Coal executive Bob Murray last year presented Trump administration officials with half a dozen draft executive orders aimed at exiting the Paris climate accord and peeling back coal regulations. ... All President Trump had to do was sign them.

The documents, released this afternoon under the Freedom of Information Act to E&E News, reveal new details about a secretive meeting in March of last year among Murray, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and other top agency officials. ... It does not appear that Trump signed the orders.

But the documents provide a further glimpse into the Murray Energy Corp. CEO's efforts to persuade the federal government to repeal environmental regulations he deemed a burden to his industry. Parts of the coal executive's proposed action plan have been previously reported, but other elements -- like the executive orders -- have not.

In a series of letters dated March 28, 2017, Murray laid out the orders for Perry and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to review and consider, including language to exit the Paris Agreement. ... "President Trump should issue an executive order to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, and/or to direct the relevant federal agencies that they shall not require coal-fired electric generators to take action to comply with the Accord," Murray wrote. ... Other executive orders called for suspending EPA rules, including regulations for effluent limitations, coal combustion residuals, the utility MACT rule, ozone, and the Mine Safety and Health Administration's dust rule.
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Reporter Dylan Brown contributed.

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"It does not appear that Trump signed the orders."

[lapfog_1]

1. And, no doubt, the one that requires grid operators to purchase

coal produced electricity instead of buying green energy or even natural gas produced electricity.

[Maraya1969]

2. There is a special place in Hell for these people who would poison our children

in the name of their greed.

[Stuart G]

3. And Trump belongs in that last rung you talk about. He is the king of "greed"...k and r..nt.

[chelsea0011]

4. Their last gasp to line their pockets as energy moves in other directions.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Black lung donny wants to drag America kicking and screaming down

our own long-sealed coal mine shafts... why? FOLLOW THE MONEY.

[Mopar151]

6. Murray and Blankenship

Returning us to the "good old days" when mine owners could kill miners with no consequence at all.