Executive Orders Have Waived Environmental Laws
Department Of Interior Will Waive Environmental Reviews For Oil, Gas, And Mining On Federal Lands
Just last week, I again warned:
While the media have covered the Trump coal power exemptions, the media has totally failed to cover the major regulatory rollbacks the Trump administration can accomplish not only under the Clean Air Act Presidential exemption provision, but under Trump’s emergency declarations.
Virtually all federal regulations provide “flexibility” to waive, exempt, streamline, expedite, and rubber stamp environmental reviews and approvals by federal agencies, and not just EPA.
There are many invisible shoes now dropping under this fake emergency – like trees falling in the woods that no one hears.
We’ve been warning about this literally for years (we began in July 2023, with a warning on the dangerous implications of Project 2025: we warned about all that in July of 2023, BEFORE the election:
“Chapter 13 [of Project 2025] provides a radical agenda to dismantle EPA and virtually all regulatory, science, and climate programs.”
Yet, once again, State officials and environmental groups and media were all caught flat footed and into a reactionary posture totally reliant on lawsuits after the fact.
Those warnings have been ignored, but again have now been vindicated, according to a NY Times story today – read the whole thing:
The Interior Department said late Wednesday that it would fast-track approvals for projects involving coal, gas, oil and minerals on public lands, arguing that President Trump’s declaration of an energy emergency allowed it to radically reduce lengthy reviews required by the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. […]
But the United States does not face an energy emergency, according to dozens of energy experts who have noted that the U.S. produces more than it consumes. The Biden administration oversaw the biggest oil and gas boom in American history and sought to increase wind, solar and other sources of renewable power. The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of natural gas, and is producing more oil than any other country, including Saudi Arabia.
And even more shoes are dropping, as the “Emergency” is broader in scope than just the Department of Interior and impacts far more environmentally destructive activities than oil and gas drilling and coal and mineral mining, see:
This would include logging, grazing, pipeline construction, roads, power lines, power plants, et cetera, including activities that harm water resources, fisheries, wildlife, ocean, air quality, toxic chemical hazards, drinking water, etc.
Entire federal environmental LAWS AND REGULATIONS are waived under Trump’s sham emergency declaration.
When will that sink in?