49 Environmental Regulations reversed or rolled back under Trump

Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions.
Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations.
Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters.
Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles traveling on federal highways.
Reverted to a weaker 2009 pollution permitting program for new power plants and expansions.
Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities.
Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the “social cost of carbon” that rulemakers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Withdrew guidance that federal agencies include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews.
Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.)
Made significant cuts to the borders of two national monuments in Utah and recommended border and resource management changes to several more.
Rescinded water pollution regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands.
Scrapped a proposed rule that required mines to prove they could pay to clean up future pollution.
Withdrew a requirement that Gulf oil rig owners prove they could cover the costs of removing rigs once they have stopped producing.
Approved construction of the Dakota Access pipeline less than a mile from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Under the Obama administration, the Army Corps of Engineers had said it would explore alternative routes.
Revoked an Obama-era executive order designed to preserve ocean, coastal and Great Lakes waters in favor of a policy focused on energy production and economic growth.
Changed how the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission considers the indirect effects of greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews of pipelines.
Permitted the use of seismic air guns for gas and oil exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. The practice, which can kill marine life and disrupt fisheries, was blocked under the Obama administration.
Loosened offshore drilling safety regulations implemented by the Obama administration following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. The revised rules include reduced testing requirements for blowout prevention systems.
Revoked Obama-era flood standards for federal infrastructure projects, like roads and bridges. The standards required the government to account for sea-level rise and other climate change effects.
Relaxed the environmental review process for federal infrastructure projects.
Revoked a directive for federal agencies to minimize impacts on water, wildlife, land and other natural resources when approving development projects.
Revoked an Obama executive order promoting “climate resilience” in the northern Bering Sea region of Alaska, which withdrew local waters from oil and gas leasing and established a tribal advisory council to consult on local environmental issues.
Revoked an Obama executive order that set a goal of cutting the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent over 10 years.
Reversed an update to the Bureau of Land Management’s public land use planning process.
Withdrew an Obama-era order to consider climate change in managing natural resources in national parks.
Restricted most Interior Department environmental studies to one year in length and a maximum of 150 pages, citing a need to reduce paperwork.
Withdrew a number of Obama-era Interior Department climate change and conservation policies that the agency said could “burden the development or utilization of domestically produced energy resources.”
Eliminated the use of an Obama-era planning system designed to minimize harm from oil and gas activity on sensitive landscapes, such as national parks.
Eased the environmental review processes for small wireless infrastructure projects with the goal of expanding 5G wireless networks.
Withdrew Obama-era policies designed to maintain or, ideally improve, natural resources affected by federal projects.
Opened nine million acres of Western land to oil and gas drilling by weakening habitat protections for the sage grouse, an imperiled bird with an elaborate mating dance.
Overturned a ban on the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on federal lands.
Overturned a ban on the hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges.
Ended an Obama-era rule barring hunters on some Alaska public lands from using bait to lure and kill grizzly bears.
Withdrew proposed limits on the number of endangered marine mammals and sea turtles that people who fish could unintentionally kill or injure with sword-fishing nets on the West Coast. In 2018, California issued a state rule prohibiting the use of the nets the rule was intending to regulate.
Amended fishing regulations for a number of species to allow for longer seasons and higher catch rates.
Rolled back a roughly 40-year-old interprentation of a policy aimed at protecting migratory birds, potentially running afoul of treaties with Canada and Mexico.
Overturned a ban on using parts of migratory birds in handicrafts made by Alaskan Natives.
Narrowed the scope of a 2016 law mandating safety assessments for potentially toxic chemicals, like dry-cleaning solvents and paint strippers. The E.P.A. will focus on direct exposure and exclude air, water and ground contamination.
Reversed an Obama-era rule that required braking system upgrades for “high hazard” trains hauling flammable liquids, like oil and ethanol.
Removed copper filter cake, an electronics manufacturing byproduct comprised of heavy metals, from the “hazardous waste” list.
Revoked a rule that prevented coal companies from dumping mining debris into local streams.
Withdrew a proposed rule aimed at reducing pollutants, including air pollution, at sewage treatment plants.
Withdrew a proposed rule requiring groundwater protections for certain uranium mines.
Weakened federal rules regulating the disposal and storage of coal ash waste from power plants. (A second phase of this rollback is still under way.)
Prohibited funding environmental and community development projects through corporate settlements of federal lawsuits.
Announced intent to stop payments to the Green Climate Fund, a United Nations program to help poorer countries reduce carbon emissions.
Reversed restrictions on the sale of plastic water bottles in national parks designed to cut down on litter, despite a Park Service report that the effort worked.

another 35 rollbacks are still in process:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

That's a great link for when righties accuse me of "Trump derangement syndrome" and want to know why exactly he is so bad and hated.

he also withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, of course, but that's not a U.S. environmental regulation so it isn't listed here

Are we voting for most fucked up reversal or rollback?

anything your heart desires

if this gets more than 5 votes, i will celebrate by rolling back an environmental regulation

now this is the real anger fuel

none of that mueller/russia rubbish, this is the stuff

lol

After I posted this poll, this breaking news:

WASHINGTON — Many of the world’s largest automakers joined together Thursday to tell President Trump that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken pollution standards for automobiles — threatens to hurt their profitability and produce “untenable” instability in one of the nation’s most important manufacturing sectors.

In a letter signed by 17 companies including Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volvo, the automakers asked Mr. Trump to go back to the negotiating table on the planned rollback. It represents the most forceful statement to date by the auto industry against Mr. Trump’s effort to weaken the tailpipe pollution rules, one of President Barack Obama’s signature policies to fight climate change.

Mr. Trump’s new rule, which is expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks, would all but eliminate the Obama-era auto pollution regulations, essentially freezing mileage standards at about 37 miles per gallon for cars, down from a target of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The policy makes it a near certainty that California and 13 other states will sue the administration while continuing to enforce their own, stricter rules — in effect splitting the United States auto market in two.

The automakers’ letter is the latest unusual turn in Mr. Trump’s quest to roll back regulations on auto manufacturing, an industry he has vowed to support, only to be told by that same industry that his efforts may do more harm than good. Some industry chief executives and lobbyists have been privately telling the White House the same thing for months

I remember watching Captain Planet as a kid and thinking how stupid it was that the villains would pollute just for the sake of polluting rather than polluting as the byproduct of manufacturing, and that there was no person in real life who would do that. And now here we are, our president is a Captain Planet villain

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this earth is closing tomorrow.

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