What do we think Trump's hiding with the EPA media blackout?

[Ken Burch]

n/t.

[mainer]

1. I think he's just doing it to be a dick

like so many other dick moves he makes.

[justiceischeap]

2. Someone earlier today thought they heard Cheeto had

repealed EPA regs with an EO. I'm sure if he had, we'd have heard about that by now?

[CincyDem]

3. He's carrying water for the oil/fracking industry.

Big issue in the fracking field is companies reclassifying liquid hazardous waste as proprietary fracking fluid.

In the former, a company trying to get rid of hazardous waste had to file a lot of paperwork and include an analysis of what they were dumping on the ground. In the later, the company can take the exact same fluid, slap a brand name on it, claim the formula as secret...and then pump it into the ground.

Somewhere in all this, follow the money to the oil companies.

[Ken Burch]

4. Yeah...that sounds about right.

[Docreed2003]

6. I think you're probably correct

[herding cats]

8. I agree.

I also suspect the coal plants come into play.

[CincyDem]

9. Coal plants - yep

IIRC, many of the largest suppliers of fracking fluid are coal plants and other mineral extraction companies that create a lot of weird runoff.

It is so screwed up.

[vlyons]

5. The Truth!!!

Hope EPA scientists copied and backed up decades of climate change and other EPA data and conclusions. Because it's all going into the shredder pretty soon. The gag order is the 1st step in eliminating the EPA. Next comes laying off most off the workers, then comes Republicans refusing to fund it.

[CincyDem]

10. This is digital "Book Burning"

And I've heard that it's been backed up.

[Johonny]

7. Like Nixon was with Kennedy, he is paranoid Obama people will leak bad news to make him look bad

[bettyellen]

11. He's repeatedly promised to get rid of 75% or more of regulations - will also be worker safety as

Well as environmental rules. He's trying to hide the details of why they are needed.