Trump pitches plan to get rid of "ridiculous regulations"

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Kenwardjr Retweeted:

Trump pitches plan to get rid of "ridiculous regulations"

By Erin Beck Register-Herald Reporter Aug 22, 2018 Updated 10 min ago

During a campaign rally for Republican candidates in Charleston Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the United States already has clean water, while defending his plan to roll back coal-related environmental regulations. ... In 2014, more than 300,000 in West Virginia had no clean drinking water after a coal-cleaning chemical spill in Kanawha County.

National media outlets had reported the president planned to speak about rolling back environmental regulations. ... Trump offered no detail about his plan, reported by the New York Times and others, to repeal President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and allow coal-powered power plants to emit more pollutants, but he did mention “the so-called clean power plan.”

“Doesn’t that sound nice?” he said. “Clean power? ... “I want clean air. I want crystal clean water, and we’ve got it,” Trump said. ... Trump called the United States the “cleanest country on the planet.” ... “There’s nobody cleaner than us and it’s getting better and better, but I’m getting rid of some of these ridiculous rules and regulations which are killing our companies, our states and our jobs.”

He also took responsibility for a recent resurgence in coal jobs. A just-released report from West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics’ Bureau of Business and Economic Research points to other reasons for a recent increase in coal demand, especially higher demand for coal exports from India and Ukraine.
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Also in that article was this snippet:

Trump made no mention of Cohen’s guilty plea, nor did he mention the conviction Tuesday of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on several tax and bank fraud charges. ... But in between opening remarks, Scott Beeson and Ray Pruitt, two pipeline workers, said the charges didn’t bother them, while ordering nachos.

“That’s not him,” Beeson, of Louisiana, said. “I could care less.” ... “We didn’t hire them people because of their morals,” Pruitt added. “We hired them to get a job done.”

“I’m a union member. We’re doing work here in West Virginia. These liberals just got a whole bunch of jobs over here — they just shut us down,” he said, alluding to the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

“We lost 3,000 jobs the other day because of what they done,” said Pruitt, who is from Oklahoma{.}

I wonder if Ray Pruitt is any relation to the better-known Pruitt from Oklahoma.

[lsewpershad]

1. Get rid

of your ridiculous self would be even better.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Looney toons.