A Coalition of Environmental, Labor and Consumer Advocates sued the White House on Wednesday to block an Executive Order President Trump signed last month requiring Federal Agencies to Repeal two Existing Regulations for every proposed New Rule.
The Lawsuit, filed in a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the Order will undo Rules that protect Health, Safety and the Environment. The Environmental Nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) cosigned the Suit with the Progressive consumer watchdog Public Citizen and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Country’s largest Union for Media and Telecoms workers.
“President Trump’s order would deny Americans the basic protections they rightly expect,” Rhea Suh, President of the NRDC, said in a statement. “New efforts to stop pollution don’t automatically make old ones unnecessary. When you make policy by tweet, it yields irrational rules. This order imposes a false choice between clean air, clean water, safe food and other environmental safeguards. When you make policy by tweet, it yields irrational rules.”
The Lawsuit filed on Wednesday appears to be the first Major Legal challenge to Trump’s Two-for-One Executive Order, which he signed on Jan. 30th to fulfill another of controversial Campaign promise.
By partnering on the Suit, the NRDC and CWA are bridging a divide between Environmental and Labor Advocates just as the White House appears to be pitting them against each other. While the newly emboldened Republican Congress attempts to shred Collective Bargaining Rules, Trump has cozied up to the Leaders of top Construction Unions to court their support for his planned wall along the U.S. Border with Mexico.
The relationship between Conservationists and Labor Unions has, of course, been fraught for decades as business leaders pitched Environmentally Destructive Projects by presenting them as a source of jobs. Trump vowed to boost the U.S. Economy by slashing Regulations, essentially an attempt to create Jobs at the expense of the Environment. That pledge seemed to target down-and-out Coal Workers, whose job opportunities dried up as Natural Gas became Electrical Utilities’ Fossil Fuel of choice. Republicans, including Trump, characterize former President Obama’s policies to curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions as a “War on Coal,” and the new President has promised to revitalize the industry.
But things ended disastrously the last time a Republican President axed Environmental and Safety Regulations accused of choking the Coal Industry. Under George W. Bush, the Department of Labor eased the enforcement of Mine Safety Rules. The liberal Center for American Politics argued that this led to 2006 Sago Mine catastrophe that left 12 Miners in West Virginia dead.
A decade later, Trump has nominated the former Owner of that Mine, billionaire Private Equity mogul Wilbur Ross, as his Commerce Secretary.
Coal, another missed opportunity. When, as it was understood it was time to move from Fossil Fuel, it was time to bring the miners out of the mines. I have been writing about this for awhile, we needed to retrain them. I thought, what a great time to create an Alternative Energy opportunity for the area, looking at becoming a manufacturing area for the future products that will be needed to become an a awhile, we needed to retrain them. I thought, what a great time to create an Alternative Energy Society.
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