https://pilotonline.com/opinion/columnist/guest/article_b5a45d67-6e2d-5e45-b094-cc3112b1195f.htmlThe Vanishing obama PresidencyBy Jeff Bergner
The Virginian-Pilot
Jan 14, 2018
ONE YEAR AGO, barack obama’s presidency came to an end. His election as the nation’s first black president was a major accomplishment for him and for the nation. Time will never erase that achievement.
But as time passes, this may be just about his only lasting political accomplishment; his legislative, regulatory and policy initiatives are disappearing rapidly. On domestic policy:
• Energy: The Keystone XL Pipeline has been approved. The Dakota Access Pipeline has been approved and is operational. U.S. energy production is up, and gas prices are down. Deep obama administration reductions in offshore drilling leases are in the process of being reversed.
• Education: The obama Education Department’s Title IX “guidance†to colleges and universities mandating how to treat sexual assault cases has been rescinded. Numerous Education Department programs begun in the Obama administration are being terminated.
• Environment: The obama EPA’s Clean Power Plan to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, the implementation of which was already blocked by the Supreme Court, has been rescinded.
• Labor: The obama-controlled National Labor Relations Board rule treating franchise chains as single employers for the purpose of collective bargaining has been repealed.
• National parks: obama’s vast additions to U.S. national monuments in Utah have been rescinded.
More at the URL above...