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Michael Walsh

As the end of the Obama administration neared, the trolls and munchins buried deep in the bowels of the "regulatory" agencies went into overdrive in order to impose more unconstitutional commands on our long-suffering nation. Alas for them, it turns out there's a law that allows swift repeal of such last-minute baloney, and the GOP is now using it:

 Joe Pizarchik spent more than seven years working on a regulation to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining. It took Congress 25 hours to kill it.

 The rule is just one of dozens enacted in the final months of the Obama administration that congressional Republicans have begun erasing under a once-obscure law — much to the dismay of agency staffers who hauled those regulations through the long process to implementation.

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Re: Boo-Hoo II: Obama Bureaucrats Disconsolate Over Regulation Repeal
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2017, 07:53:03 am »
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...wondering whether lawmakers even understood the regulations they voted to kill.

I wouldn't wonder; I'm sure they don't.

The Stream Protection Rule example they give requires mining companies to monitor the streams near mines and restore then if damaged, not just dump the costs onto the taxpayers.  I hope they replace it, as this rule updated the decades-old regs built on old science.

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http://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14488448/stream-protection-rule

https://www.osmre.gov/programs/rcm/StreamProtectionRule.shtm
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