What's the payoff for overturning the Clean Water act?

[mahina]

There has to be one.

[Towlie]

1. Simple: the purpose of evil is evil.

As O'Brien said to Winston Smith, "The purpose of power is power, and the purpose of torture is torture." For Trump, the purpose of evil is evil. The more evil he does, the more his supporters love him.

[Iggo]

2. The rich get richer. (n/t)

[ScienceGalWI]

3. Agreed.

Corporate Welfare. Privatize profits. Socialize costs.

[gopiscrap]

13. welcome to DU

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Massive Pofits for the

Wall Street Bankers who supplied the Funding for all these Cleanup projects.

[mahina]

5. It must flow to Trump somehow

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Trump expects to be reinstalled by the billionaires

[moondust]

6. I suppose

corporate executives and shareholders believe they can get richer faster if they no longer have to pay "extra" overhead to process their waste materials responsibly because now they can simply dump it in the nearest river or stream.

Love Canals for everybody!!!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Increased profits.

It's the main reason Fat Donnie pulled out of the Paris Accords; industry making the changes necessary to protect the environment would cut into corporate profits.

[mahina]

8. Yeah but how is it getting in his pocket

[2naSalit]

10. They rent rooms in his resorts....nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. That's why we need to see his tax returns.

I'm sure there is some financial relationship between the fossil fuel industry and Fat Donnie, otherwise why would he have been so supportive of coal in 2016.

Of course, after he was elected, miners still found themselves unemployed.

[hunter]

9. Trump drinks bottled water.

The people he hates most drink tap water.

Trump also hates nature.

Can you imagine Trump camping in the Sierra like Teddy Roosevelt?

He wouldn't last five minutes, and it's not because he's old. My octogenarian parents and in-laws live with nature on their doorsteps and mud on their boots.

Roosevelt, Muir, and The Camping Trip

On March 14, 1903, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a personal letter to Muir asking Muir to take him through the Yosemite. He noted, "I do not want anyone with me but you, and I want to drop politics absolutely for four days and just be out in the open with you." Roosevelt had read some of Muir's writings in which he explained how the wild forests were vanishing as ranchers and developers destroyed the wilderness for their own uses and for money. While most of Roosevelt’s advisors thought that America's wilderness was too large to ever be depleted, Roosevelt wondered if this were really so and could the government help?

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https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2016/08/roosevelt-muir-and-the-camping-trip/