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When Trump brags about his supposedly growth-boosting deregulatory agenda, this is the kind of thing he's talking about
If your business model depends on pumping soot into the air, I can see how it's good for you. Hard to see how it helps the rest of us https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/07/trump-air-pollution/?tid=ss_tw
If your business model depends on pumping soot into the air, I can see how it's good for you. Hard to see how it helps the rest of us https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/07/trump-air-pollution/?tid=ss_tw
Also, this one. Again - if your business is only viable if you can use a pesticide that gives children brain damage, maybe you shouldn't be in business. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/528813-epa-proposes-reapproving-uses-of-pesticide-linked-to-brain-damage
Trump administration is pushing even more 'midnight regulations' after already breaking records for final-year rulemaking, per CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/06/politics/trump-midnight-regulations-record-rulemaking/index.html
Trump has claimed repeatedly that his deregulatory agenda boosted growth, and much of the pundit class lazily took this claim as fact. But even *before* covid hit, growth was roughly same under Trump as during Obama's 2nd term. Plus...
The Trump admin's official cost-benefit analyses of its regulations, which allegedly proved the measures would increase growth, often relied on dishonest accounting gimmicks to get numbers to add up favorably. In other words: he cooked the books https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-touts-trumps-deregulation-its-actually-been-a-bust/2019/10/28/c9fcbdc8-f9c3-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html
Trump has also selectively *raised* the regulatory burden on his perceived political enemies -- immigrants, gays, the poor, social media companies, news orgs, etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-all-about-deregulation--except-when-it-comes-to-his-enemies/2020/05/28/dcfb9638-a116-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html
As expected, Trump EPA jams thru another pro-pollution rule. This one is designed to force subsequent administrations to cook the books on any cost-benefit analysis of air pollution regs -- basically, by ceasing to count a lot of the benefits https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/09/trump-air-pollution/
