The idea there are jobs that may be effected by environmental law is a reality that plagues the agency. There is nothing one can do about lost jobs and profits because regulations require Americans to be safe from environmental pollution. Excess greenhouse gases are pollution.
No one likes to cause adverse economic conditions because of NECESSARY REGULATIONS. The beautiful effect of the EPA in leveraging regulation to improve the lives of Americans is to realize the number of jobs created by alternative energies over the past decade. When people lost their jobs, their homes and hope in 2008, the Democratic Recovery Act brought new jobs in areas of energy sourly ignored for decades.
Today, there are very viable economic realities that cannot be ignored. Scott Pruitt in his antiquated ideas and incompetent METHODS of determining regulation or the lack of it, is at least as offensive as he claims current regulation is; to the brave new energy world instilled under the Obama administration. There are very viable arguments for a court to consider about the incompetency of Pruitt, his methods and strong partisan discrimination that will cause damage to Americans and their economy.
Just because Pruitt puts his name on a piece of paper doesn't mean the lawsuit ends there, if anything it goes forward with more viability to prove how wayward this administration is without a care about the danger Americans are being placed in.
December 26, 2017
By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin
Since 2010, (click here) the Environmental Protection Agency has been embroiled in an enforcement battle with a Michigan-based company accused of modifying the state’s largest coal-fired power plant without getting federal permits for a projected rise in pollution.
On Dec. 7, as the Supreme Court was considering whether to hear the case, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a memo that single-handedly reversed the agency’s position. No longer would the EPA be “second-guessing” DTE Energy’s emission projections. Rather, it would accept the firm’s “intent” to manage its pollution without requiring an enforceable agreement — part of President Trump’s broader push to reduce the “burden” on companies, he wrote.
The little-noticed episode offers a glimpse into how Pruitt has spent his first year running the EPA. In legal maneuvers and executive actions, in public speeches and closed-door meetings with industry groups, he has moved to shrink the agency’s reach, alter its focus and pause or reverse numerous environmental rules. The effect has been to steer the EPA in the direction sought by those being regulated.
