Thread by @ItHasBegun2016

Liar.

The New York Times has compiled a list of the 84 environmental rules on their way out during your nightmare presidency.
Here are the ones that have been completed so far:
"1. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions. (EPA)"
#LiarInChief

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1136460449774559234

"2. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations.
(Interior Department)"
#ClimateChangeIsReal #ThursdayThoughts

"3. Loosened a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters. (EPA)"
#PartyOverCountry #GreedOverEverything

"4. Stopped enforcing a 2015 rule that prohibited the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases, in air-conditioners and refrigerators. (EPA)"
#ClimateChangeDeniers #GOPTaxScam

"5. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles traveling on federal highways.
(Transportation Department)"
#DemocratsCare #ForThePeople #BigOil

"6. Reverted to a weaker 2009 pollution permitting program for new power plants and expansions. (EPA)"
#ClimateActionNow #ClimateEmergency

"7. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities. (EPA)"
#HeroesResist #ClimateCrisis

"8. 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. (Executive Order)"
#TheResistance #BlueWave #ForThePeople

"9. 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. (Executive Order; Council on Environmental Quality)"
#RightSideOfHistory #BlueWave2020

"10. 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. (EPA)"
#VoteBlue #ClimateChange #ClimateDebate

And those are just the ones related to air pollution!
Here's a link to the article 👉 nyti.ms/2JVzDe6
Thank you to #TheResistance ...for caring about our planet & all the people on it.
We must work together to defeat trump & the GOP or we're done.
#PostcardsToVoters #GOTV