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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 11:18 PM Feb 2017

Don't you just love it - Keep the EPA-but don't enforce its laws

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Coal slurry spill - Now O.K.


Though some Republicans have called for getting rid of the EPA altogether, the Trump regime has a different plan: Keep the agency around in name only but stop enforcing environmental laws.


The Trump administration is considering closing down the enforcement division of the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a report Wednesday evening from Inside EPA.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/9/1631804/-Trump-regime-plans-to-destroy-EPA-s-ability-to-enforce-environmental-law

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Don't you just love it - Keep the EPA-but don't enforce its laws (Original Post) packman Feb 2017 OP
Evil fucking crayon world wide wally Feb 2017 #1
Let's try elleng Feb 2017 #2

elleng

(130,974 posts)
2. Let's try
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 11:24 PM
Feb 2017

Mandamus ("We command&quot is a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a superior court, to any government subordinate court, corporation, or public authority—to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do (or refrain from doing)—and which is in the nature of public duty.

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