Shitstain's New Plan - Further Neuter Enforcement, Find New Regulations To Cut Across Agencies

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The White House regulatory chief issued a new memo yesterday that critics say would curtail government enforcement of rules, including those related to the environment. The memo follows an executive order issued in May that directed agencies to find regulations to cut in an attempt to spur economy recovery in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic (E&E News PM, May 19).

The goal is to increase the burden on the government — rather than the individual — in administrative cases. But more broadly, the memo grows out of past controversial White House initiatives that sought to "make significant reforms" as a way to protect Americans from "secretive" bureaucratic interpretation or unjust penalties (Greenwire, Jan. 30).

The document, issued by Paul Ray, head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, outlines ways that federal agencies should make sure administrative enforcement is "prompt and fair" — a move that critics say would neuter enforcement.

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"This is essentially memorializing what has already been de facto policy under the Trump administration — refusing to conduct robust enforcement and hold corporate bad actors accountable," said Amit Narang, regulatory policy advocate at the left-leaning group Public Citizen. "That has been the policy already," he said. "Regulatory enforcement has seen historic drops and never been weaker across agencies, including at the EPA." Narang also pointed to EPA's controversial COVID-19-era enforcement policy, which the agency ended yesterday.

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1. The damage done to the country by the real

virus - donnie littlehands himself, is staggering.