EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas • Hacker News Board

Re: EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas

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Post by burfog » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 1:15 AM UTC

throwaway5752 wrote: post #7

I suggest changing the headline to "outgoing administration continues to sabotage government for next administration as popularity continues to decline during incompetent response to viral pandemic". Another example of something that was so important they waited until less than 3 months before the election to do it. It hardly needs saying, but this is devastatingly bad environmental and climate policy.

Outgoing?

Here in real life, off the internet in a swing state, 100% of the people I know have become Trump supporters. Opinions on his response to the viral pandemic include "fine", "irrelevant because not his problem", and "who cares". Opinions on his environmental and climate policy are uniformly "more please" and "crank it to 11".

The only dip in popularity came with the bump stock ban. That really ticked people off.

Re: EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas

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Post by christopher22 » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 3:43 AM UTC

crocodiletears wrote: post #131

spaetzleesser wrote: post #2

It’s very hard to understand why the current administration has such an urge to roll back environmental regulations. I grew up in a time when rivers were red or green depending on what type of leather the factory upstream was processing at the time. The only fish you could see were dead. Breathing in cities was hard. Environmental regulation is a big success story that improved the lives of countless people while com…

The administration is trying to divorce us from much of our dependency on the global order. Part of this agenda comes with the (un?)fortunate fact that we can no longer economically farm out as many of the negative externalities of our consumption to the third world, if we want to mantain it. From that perspective, deregulating areas which prevent us from competing in historically outsourced industries with large eco…

As someone who is quite anxious about climate change, your comment has done the most to give me hope with regards to these rollbacks. To add, if this brings manufacturing back to USA, maybe also the factories will be less polluting/ghg emitting than the factories they are replacing overseas.

Re: EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations for Oil and Gas

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #179

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't seem right. All we hear about is the evangelical support of Trump is unwavering even though he personally violates their expectations of behavior. They see him rewarding them in terms of laws, federal judges, supporting their desires and also the perhaps more complicated support for feeling of white people's power and privilege being under siege.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/ma... It was pronounced dead loads of times between '08 & '16 and this is just one. You see it mentioned, because as I previously said it's a boogeyman used to scare us liberals. You're being manipulated.

Sorry, I don't get the manipulation or Boogeyman here. Is there no Christian right or they have no power, or ALEC doesn't exist or what?