The resurgent GOP are really going full - steam ahead right now with some rather controversial bills . Just within the last week , one was muster in tocompletely abolishthe Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , and another has been coiffe up to allow the Union authorities to easilysell off pristine public landto the high bidder .
Now , as reported byReuters , the Republican - dominated House of Representatives just vote on a bill to overturn two central rules designed to aim corruptness and pollution in the energy sector . The Senate , also predominate by the GOP , is expected to O.K. the bill within a workweek , which would effectively erase these laws from the legislature .
Brought in by the 2010 Dodd - Frank Wall Street reform measures , the anti - corruption rule made the disclosure of financial transactions , taxes , and the minutiae of sizeable business pile of monumental conglomerates , including ExxonMobil , mandatory . The idea was that these companies had increase oversight , and any shady dealings could be investigate by independent bodies .
Republican Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas , who has a stridently conservative record when it comes to legislation , order the floor that this normal was part of “ a extremist left-wing elitist agenda against carbon - found jobs . ”
As you could guess , ExxonMobil lobbied heavily to repeal this dominion . In retrospect , then , it looks like the fossil fuel chemical group ’s fortunes have taken a twist for the practiced . Lest we forget , just this week , its former chief was sworn in as the government’sSecretary of State .
The second rule , play forwards by the Department of the Interior under Obama , aim to cut the risk of water pollution via ember mining . Essentially , it required companies to monitor and examine watercourse quality that could be harmed by nearby excavation operations .
Republicans have stridently claimed that these regulation are “ unworkable ” and below the belt direct ember industry – but that ’s just because these industriousness frequently pollute waterways . polish off this rule will allow ember group to operate with heady wildness in this heed rather than reckon what actions they can take to reduce their environmental harm .
The imminent demise of these two convention is part of a package of repeals that thePresident ’s partyis pushing through at the moment as part of an attempt to “ cringe ” the administration and alter the tax codification . The speed at which this is happening is thanks to the careful choice of words of the Congressional Review Act , which allows lawmaker to permanently reverse new regulative measures without impediment .
It ’s hard not to notice that it seems to be mostly environmental protection regulations , signed into practice of law at the tail goal of the Obama brass , that are up for disintegration .
[ H / T : Reuters ]
