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Since the first Earth Day, the EPA has regulated lead out of paint, air, and gasoline. It started fuel-economy testing (and then caught those cheating on them), phased out ozone-depleting aerosols, and removed cancer-causing pesticides from the marketplace.
I have thought for years environmental issues need to be depoliticized.
Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress.
I believe man has an impact on the climate. But what is not completely understood is what the impact is.
Reliable and affordable energy is the foundation of America’s strength. Without it, our prosperity and security can fall outside our control.
There is no more important responsibility than protecting human health and the environment. It is a responsibility I take very seriously.
Yes, it’s important to get all plastic out of the waste stream.
I just wish the California officials would focus more on cleaning up the air in their state than trying to look like they’re doing something globally for climate change.
Under the Clean Water Act, the federal government has jurisdiction over navigable waters – defined as the ‘waters of the United States.’ Federal regulators and the courts have broadened this definition over time, moving from waters a vessel can navigate to ponds and wetlands as well.
Up to 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and, as a result, proper sanitation. This fact leads to anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths every year.
Having started my career at EPA, having worked on the Hill for two different members who didn’t agree on every issue, and then working in the private practice, where I’ve worked on behalf of different clients – I don’t think I’m biased.
I go hiking. I go camping.
A cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s agenda has been to promote domestic energy production, create jobs and improve economic growth, and he has directed federal agencies to replace or repeal burdensome and outdated regulations that stand in the way of these objectives.
I believe that man does have an impact on the climate, that CO2 has an impact on the climate, and we do take that seriously.
In the past, people have had to hire lawyers or consultants to try to figure out whether or not their property contains a federal waterway. We want to make sure that the definition is clear and concise.
The critics can’t say that our regulations are making the environment worse, and ‘Oh, it’s getting better, well then it must be somebody else who made it better.’
Through our regulatory reforms, the Trump administration is proving that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress. What makes our actions effective and durable is our commitment to vigorously enforce them.
Our nation has abundant energy resources available, and American energy resources are extracted, refined and transported in an environmentally conscious manner.
The fact is that the climate changes regularly.
When you have a thousand children that die a day from lack of drinking water, that’s a crisis and that’s a crisis that we – we collectively as the world – know how to solve that problem. We know what it takes but we haven’t had the will internationally to solve that problem.
In fact, on the drinking water side, the Green New Deal does not value – at least nowhere in the documents does it value – having reliable electric grid.
EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not use our authority to pick winners and losers in the energy marketplace.
Through our deregulatory actions, the Trump Administration has proven that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress.
I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.
I am an Eagle Scout. I am very proud of that. When I was in college I worked summers in a Boy Scout summer camp. I was a nature conservation director.
I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I’ve always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.
Our ACE proposal will reduce CO2 approximately the same levels that the Clean Power Plan would have, if it had been implemented. And we’re reducing CO2 from our CAFE standards.
California cars have no closer link to California climate impacts than do cars on the road in Japan or anywhere else in the world.
America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.
I like the outdoors.
We are importing Russian natural gas which is not produced in an environmentally conscious manner. If the states that are blocking the pipelines were truly concerned about the environment, they would look to where the natural gas would be coming from.
We have the safest drinking water in the world.
We are elevating this work to address global water security to a new level under President Trump.
A reliable electric grid is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water. You have to have the electricity.
I did do my undergraduate work in biology.
When President Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development.
When President Donald Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development. At the top of the list was the Obama Administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States rule.
I think what is effective regulation is one that follows the law and one that will be held up in court.
When we go, as a first responder, when we go into a community that’s been hit with a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, the first thing we do is try to make sure the electric grid is back up and running in order to provide the drinking water for those communities.
I’m very concerned about the – I want to leave EPA in a better position than in which I found it, when I eventually do leave the agency.
