Replying to commenter Dave Beech. I understand and agree with the sentiment, but wish to push it further. Quoting from the above blog.
“SPR gives communities in coal country much needed information about toxic water pollution caused by nearby mining operations. It was finalized by the Obama administration in late 2016.”
Fuck me, have yanks ever heard of best fucking practice????
Never mind the last president, what about such communication happening in say Hoovers presidency nearly a century ago.
Yas are a bit behind the times aint yas.
Im reminded strongly of the muppets i work for, who only came up with a policy of zero tolerance for alcohol and drugs in 2017!!!!! Despite being involved in offshore oil and gas and shipping since, well, coincidentaly, Hoovers time!!!!
Bit late to the party and no way can they claim ignorance of industry best practice.
This Trump cock and his party dont seem overly environmentally responsible ( faint memory of Nixon initiating the USA EPA dept , though, could be wrong with that memory ), but that dosnt absolve the donkeys from historical neglect.
Seems like both elephants and donkeys are a bunch of shitheads who care little for people, or the environment.
That silly Clinton lady coulda campaigned hard on environmental matters. Really hard. Like a real full on greenie. But she didnt. So she and her party aint.
In fact theres a whole heap of stuff she and Trump didnt campaign hard for.
Never heard a bloody thing about domestic violence and what to do about it, from em, for example.
Heard bugger all about agricultural policy and reform either.
So yeah, your point about Obamas timeframe is valid.
Not actually sure why usa presidents gotta be the sole people to come up with new ideas. Dosnt the public service have an obligation to always improve society?
And isnt there heaps of congressmen and senators to initiate ideas too?
Christ, if progress and reform is always left to one individual in the USA system, its no wonder yas a in muddle.
Perhaps yous should check out some other political and government models for ideas. Theres heaps of em to choose from.

If it is so common sense, why did it take 8 yrs for Obama to enact and it took effect on his last day of office. Sounds like a setup for incoming administration.

Republicans like their god damned god given right to hurt others. And coal lets them do it in so many ways. … so many ways….

Just what a conservative needs to help spread disease, destruction, and disaster among those undesirable creatures that inhabit earth.

In the years I worked in environmental engineering, I always found it amazing how the laws gerrymandered their way around coal ash as if it were some sort of sacred entity.
I guess the principles of toxicology don’t apply to coal ash.

Coal is truly magic stuff that Republicans use,along with a great deal of human sacrifice, to create wealth. For instance, you have your sacrificial coal miners, your sacrificial river valley victims from failed coal waste dams, your sacrificial citizens who expire from coal waste induced lung disease, and so forth. Yes, coal is magic stuff for Republicans.

Congress never passed this rule about waste in rivers. For someone who thinks following THE RULES are the only thing preventing a Holocaust in America, shouldn’t this matter at all?

Ignoring him only serves to make it take longer before “dick” can rise from the grave again!

His apologetics for Trump are therefore invalidated. As I said, he needs better bullshit. Perhaps this observation went over his head, hence the link in the first paragraph.

To spell it out, MikeN: nobody needs to engage with your bullshit because it is a logical fallacy. If you wish to mount a meaningful defence of Trump’s flailing, you need to do so in a meaningful fashion.

Good luck with that.

For Obama’s entire time in the Senate and all of his first term and 98% of his second term as President, he did not have this rule that Congress is seeking to overturn.

Oh, gee. Don’t you think that maybe, as President, he had a lot of things to handle, including getting the U.S. out of an illegal war in Iraq, before he could, you know, introduce this law? Or that maybe the Republicans tried constantly to undermine him?
Nah, couldn’t be that.
@Brainstorms, almost anyone would be better than Trumplethinskin.