"Just as in this deal there were certain rollbacks, in phase two there will be additional rollbacks," Mnuchin said.
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"Just as in this deal there were certain rollbacks, in phase two there will be additional rollbacks," he said.
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And that estimate is based only on existing Trump rollbacks.
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So a lot of the regulatory rollbacks are in jeopardy.
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The rollbacks are part of Trump's push to deregulate industry.
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Nonetheless, the rollbacks and predations of this Administration appall him.
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Wholesale regulatory rollbacks by presidential fiat are difficult to accomplish.
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Environmental rollbacks have become a centerpiece of the Trump administration.
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Some of these rollbacks are now tied up in court.
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These regulatory rollbacks will almost surely reverse years of progress.
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Yet now, these safeguards are under threat of serious rollbacks.
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But the response to these rollbacks can't just be defensive.
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Many of these rollbacks have since been blocked in the courts.
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But once the rollbacks are made final, the fight won't end.
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Conservation and American Indian groups have sued to stop those rollbacks.
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When she objected to Trump's rollbacks, they ostensibly fired her. 2.
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In effect, these rollbacks pave the way for another such disaster.
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Vonnegut's narrator, Leon Trout, spoke to the benefits of these rollbacks.
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See the full list of rollbacks in our updated tracker here.
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But tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks don't go away with Trump.
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The controversy comes with where these rollbacks are happening: swing states.
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So regulatory rollbacks, even announcements thereof, are precious points on the board.
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Rollbacks on privacy regulations, abuses of personal data, and so much more.
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His regulatory rollbacks will make drinking water dirtier and national monuments murkier.
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Trump's rollbacks, therefore, represent more than just another swipe at Obama's legacy.
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The Wednesday agenda updated timelines for dozens of other EPA regulatory rollbacks.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), over a raft of Obama-era environmental policy rollbacks.
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But those plans are largely rollbacks of Obama-era emission reduction plans.
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Environmentalists see the rollbacks as dangerous to public health and the environment.
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There are conflicting views in Johnson County of the administration's environmental rollbacks.
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He also said talks in Washington about regulatory rollbacks are "very encouraging."
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He credits his tax cuts from 2017 and vast rollbacks of regulation.
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In short, Rao serves as President Donald Trump's czar for regulatory rollbacks.
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Democratic lawmakers were upset with Pruitt's ongoing rollbacks of environmental regulations. Rep.
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The study found 78% of the rollbacks happened in the last eight years.
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The Environmental Protection Agency could reverse regulatory rollbacks set by the Trump administration.
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So how might Trump's rollbacks potentially hurt the domestic oil and gas industry?
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I pressed him to stop the climate policy rollbacks that Pruitt had launched.
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Trump's rollbacks at the Environmental Protection Agency are part of his deregulation agenda.
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The DOJ's civil rights office is not alone in fearing rollbacks in enforcement.
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The rollbacks would not amount to a wholesale reversal of the Obama rules.
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But courts have been pushing back on some of the administration's environmental rollbacks.
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The final versions of the regulatory rollbacks are to be published this year.
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These scores, however, are likely to decrease following the Trump administration's new rollbacks.
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Go deeper: Julián Castro releases animal welfare plan seeking to undo Trump's rollbacks
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Pruitt says that his extreme rollbacks will not impact EPA's important enforcement function.
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These CHIP rollbacks "will not impact the program," the senior administration official said.
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Since then, China has asked that even a partial deal include tariff rollbacks.
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The U.S. industry will not recover despite regulatory rollbacks at the federal level.
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Trump, conservation and indigenous groups are seeking to have the monument rollbacks reversed.
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The shift is one of 95 environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration. 3.
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DEMS PROBE EPA CLIMATE ROLLBACKS: Leading House Democrats, weeks away from taking over the majority in the lower chamber, are demanding records and information from the Trump administration's rollbacks of numerous climate change policies at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep.
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But in the past, Wal-Mart has said its rollbacks typically last 90 days.
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But his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks will boost jobs, wages, and the economy.
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Locate the scroll of US EPA policy rollbacks on the left of the wall.
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Walmart sale detailsWalmart's main Big Sale includes thousands of special buys and rollbacks online.
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An EPA spokesperson earlier Thursday defended Pruitt's scandals by highlighting those same regulatory rollbacks.
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It makes sense, then, that under Pruitt, the agency has proposed poorly justified rollbacks.
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Chinese officials, for example, argued on Thursday that there should be more tariff rollbacks.
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Even accounting for Reagan's rollbacks after 1981, his first-term cuts exceed Trump's bill.
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The Trump administration is still reviewing that rule for potential rollbacks or other changes.
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The Trump administration has indicated that more monument rollbacks may occur in the future.
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After the Trump administration's rollbacks of civil rights protections for many in that community.
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The bill offers other goodies for the industry on top of the regulatory rollbacks.
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"The regulatory rollbacks that I've seen from the administration are enormously troubling," cautioned Whitman.
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The Wall Street Journal says that US and Chinese officials are "actively considering" rollbacks.
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Those retailers could benefit from financial regulatory rollbacks making their way through the Senate.
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Read through this short article, with charts showing the effects of Mr. Trump's rollbacks.
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Mike Lee and Jerry Moran announced their decision, citing insufficient tax and regulation rollbacks.
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After Mr. Trump won the presidency, automakers initially sought rollbacks in the Obama-era rules.
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Sure, there have been some regulatory rollbacks, an immigration crackdown, and a Supreme Court confirmation.
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Some of the investor exuberance over possible tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks has abated, however.
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Regulatory rollbacks in the last year make it legal for ISPs to sell your data.
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J., have used committee hearings to give dire warnings about the administration's environmental regulation rollbacks.
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Legislators must heed our call to resist rollbacks and push forward a new progressive agenda.
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The truth is that this administration isn't pursuing regulatory rollbacks to help the American people.
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They say the methane rollbacks will exacerbate climate change, harm public health and cost taxpayers.
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And if you want to read more about other Endangered Species Act rollbacks... Happy Thursday!
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Further rollbacks will affect financial services as well as energy and labor rules, among others.
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Mr. Zinke is the chief architect of a number of President Trump's environmental regulatory rollbacks.
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California has vowed to disregard any rollbacks and stick to its own stricter emissions standards.
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Experts say a rise in methane emissions is an inevitable consequence of Mr. Trump's rollbacks.
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America's largest corporations, however, are not citing rollbacks as the reason for their improved results.
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But the new law is expected to spur legal challenges, just as previous rollbacks have.
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That could imperil one of Mr. Trump's most far-reaching rollbacks of climate-change policies.
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The broad public has not demanded the rollbacks — and will not be served by them.
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Like other candidates, Harris pledges to reverse the Trump administration's rollbacks of federal environmental rules.
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That could imperil one of Mr. Trump's most far-reaching rollbacks of climate-change policies.
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Trump is also locking in the damage further by appointing conservative judges favorable to these rollbacks.
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They anticipated a wave of regulatory rollbacks and the slashing of corporate and personal tax rates.
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"The online rollbacks will be extended offers beyond just a single day," spokesman Ravi Jariwala said.
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights logs Trump's alleged "rollbacks" of our civil rights.
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Many of the rollbacks had already been announced, though some new timelines or justifications were revealed.
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But the chemical rule has also been one of the most vocally contested Trump administration rollbacks.
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The Trump administration recently announced rollbacks of greenhouse gas emissions regulations for transportation and electricity generation.
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This year is set to witness one the greatest rollbacks of environmental protections in Republican history.
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The Fed also proposed regulatory rollbacks that could introduce new bank capital into the stock markets.
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The pace of change, however, is uneven, and threatened by rollbacks like last week's court ruling.
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The Trump administration cited its rollbacks as a victory and the fulfillment of a campaign promise.
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Rollbacks of democracy have been central to Republican rule for the better part of two decades.
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Environmental groups warned that the rollbacks could pave the way for similar crises to happen again.
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The Los Angeles Resist March, held in 2017, protested rollbacks of LGBTQ rights under President Trump.
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Many of those rollbacks will go through years of rulemaking and court battles before taking effect.
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These actions include rollbacks of environmental regulations that govern water, air and greenhouse gas emission levels.
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One potential risk is that these rollbacks could sap any momentum for stronger global climate action.
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Legal experts said the advisory body's opinion could undermine the Trump administration's rollbacks in the courts.
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Those rollbacks are still far from assured, however, and environmentalists plan to challenge them in court.
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And it's not clear how these rollbacks would be enforced or when they would take effect.
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The administration wants to maintain the illusion that its environmental rollbacks are motivated by populist sentiment.
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The United Steelworkers union said in a statement on Thursday it strongly opposed the proposed rollbacks.
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Seven rollbacks have been signed into law by President Trump, with several others awaiting his signature.
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A coalition of states are suing the government to stop some of these regulatory rollbacks. 8.
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"I know there are those in the majority that support rollbacks of EPA rules," Tonko said.
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Some of the most consequential climate rollbacks are expected to be finalized in the coming months.
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The regulatory rollbacks have been so crude that they are already beginning to founder in court.
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Robert E. Murray's wish list of environmental rollbacks reads like a playbook for the Trump administration.
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The chamber has actively fought climate regulations issued by former President Obama and supported Trump's regulatory rollbacks.
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"Team Internet" showed up at Verizon stores to fight FCC commissioner Ajit Pai's proposed rollbacks to protections.
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A flurry of rollbacks and attacks on various environmental rules protecting public lands are already under way.
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The revisions also ramped up some of the regulatory rollbacks needed to help win conservative votes. Sen.
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The markets had been looking for real progress from Trump's promises on tax reform and regulatory rollbacks.
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Its membership has a lot to celebrate this year, including rollbacks to former President Obama's drilling regulations.
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The most significant regulatory rollbacks in 2017 were those performed by Congress using the Congressional Review Act.
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A Marathon spokesman, Chuck Rice, said Mr. Heminger did not discuss auto-efficiency rollbacks with Mr. Pruitt.
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The discovery prompted residents to confront the Trump administration over its rollbacks of health and environmental regulations.
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Here's a list of many of the major environmental rollbacks the Trump administration has attempted to undertake.
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"There's a lot of talk about rollbacks in the press coverage, and description is wrong," he said.
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Some of Trump's policies would have amounted to benefit rollbacks, but on Twitter he was explicit: no cuts.
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Indiana suffered a major HIV outbreak in 2016, under now Vice President Mike Pence, after Planned Parenthood rollbacks.
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Walk up to the scroll and read as many rollbacks as you can take in before going numb.
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The big picture: The tension threatens to override Trump's positive rhetoric and regulatory rollbacks elsewhere in the administration.
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EXCLUSIVE-CHINA PUSH FOR MORE TARIFF ROLLBACKS NOT SEEN DERAILING PROGRESS TOWARD TRADE DEAL SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL
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The retailer is releasing thousands of "special buys" and "rollbacks" — which is Walmart's term for discounts — on Walmart.
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Any hopes that the rollbacks may go more smoothly with Pruitt gone are likely to be in vain.
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Meanwhile health groups like the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, are upset about rollbacks to nutrition standards.
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Officials would then have to read through the comments and make necessary changes before making the rollbacks final.
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President Donald Trump has been pushing a three-pronged economic agenda: tax reform, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending.
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The Heritage Foundation says that Trump's administration's rollbacks have saved the country 33 billion dollars in regulatory funds.
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At the same time, the Trump administration has targeted environmental impact statements in some of its regulatory rollbacks.
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The payoffs of the Trump presidency — like the tax cut and regulatory rollbacks — remain focal for many Republicans.
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Seventeen states — led by New York — filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over climate change regulation rollbacks.
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In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department are teeing up more rollbacks of Obama-era regulations.
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It's likely, Professor Rowlands said, that the House will fight any further environmental rollbacks by the Trump administration.
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The decline in criminal penalties has unfolded against a backdrop of broader regulatory rollbacks in the civil arena.
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Go deeper: Corporate heavyweights split with Trump on energy regulatory rollbacks Emissions credits are like gold for automakers
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Are the rollbacks on various environmental measures being pushed by the Trump administration helpful to the oil industry?
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" She added, "We need more effective regulation and enforcement, not rollbacks driven by Wall Street and predatory lenders.
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Now, after 22019 years of rollbacks on union and labor rights, workers have been silenced at their jobs.
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Here's a look back at some of the biggest environmental rollbacks the Trump administration moved forward last year.
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Studios, while open to some raises, have so far proposed health care changes that many writers consider rollbacks.
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Wilson and his colleagues have been concerned that the Trump rollbacks could bring paved roads to the protected space.
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Such regulatory rollbacks and talk of tax cuts have boosted financial markets, too, which have rallied since Trump's win.
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On the one hand he's pledged regulatory rollbacks on fracking and opening federal lands to boost natural gas production.
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Earlier this year, environmental groups launched two lawsuits to challenge the federal rollbacks on coal mining in the west.
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Three approaches are possible: later implementation of newish rules, looser enforcement of existing ones, and formal rollbacks of others.
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The move suggests that similar rollbacks of current e-scooter laws could one day allow these companies a foothold.
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Nor is the Ninth Circuit the only court in which the Trump administration's climate rollbacks will be an issue.
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The president and his team promised an economy supercharged by huge corporate tax cuts and historic rollbacks in regulation.
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It will be a little while before the courts start weighing in on the substance of the EPA's rollbacks.
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Medicaid expansion rollbacks, which reduce access to care for lower-income individuals, could also negatively impact drug addiction recovery.
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Scientists have heavily critiqued both regulation rollbacks for not being based on the best available science — an EPA mandate.
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The administration's weak-dollar policies and financial regulatory rollbacks would also be blamed for making any economic slowdown worse.
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Met with confrontation, Pruitt's regulatory rollbacks and ethics violations forced him to resign 28503 months after his Senate confirmation.
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While some climate rollbacks can be changed with the stroke of a pen, others could take years to complete.
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The bottom line: There's a big difference between structural reforms and temporary rollbacks for one set of price increases.
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And nobody in the White House disputes that Pruitt's EPA has achieved major regulatory rollbacks for the Trump administration.
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But the big regulatory rollbacks he set in motion at the Environmental Protection Agency are still very much alive.
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But their efforts have not been enough to offset the effects of the Trump administration's rollbacks on climate policy.
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Fox News's Chris Wallace questioned him aggressively a year ago about the EPA's rollbacks of regulations around climate change.
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We first published our list tracking the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks when President Trump hit 100 days in office.
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And in the third year of his presidency, agencies, not just the EPA, have continued the environmental regulation rollbacks.
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Trump's goal of 3 percent growth is predicated at least somewhat on tax reform as well as regulatory rollbacks.
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As Trump's rollbacks allow industries more freedom with fewer regulations to navigate, safety laws can fall by the wayside.
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Some Democrats embrace Mr. Trump's concerns about trade deals while they bitterly oppose the tax bill and regulatory rollbacks.
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A staggering 21625 environmental policies have been reversed with another 2900 rollbacks in progress, as part of the Trump administration's unrelenting efforts to erode environmental regulations in the U.S. Although proponents assert that rollbacks are afforded by a healthy and improving environment, a growing number of signals indicate that isn't the case.
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Cold weather, increased natural gas consumption, economic growth, and regulatory rollbacks are the main causes behind the elevated carbon pollution.
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It is the first of what is expected to be many environmental regulation rollbacks sent to his desk by Congress.
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The reasons behind Pavlik's bullish call include President-elect Trump's potential tax cuts, fiscal stimulus and rollbacks on corporate regulations.
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In his first year on the job, Mr. Pruitt initiated the rollbacks of more than two dozen major environmental rules.
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President Donald Trump has vowed to boost annual growth to 21.8 percent through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and regulatory rollbacks.
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For now, PLAN is focusing on pushing Senator Heller to oppose big rollbacks of ACA provisions—particularly those affecting Medicaid.
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It is difficult to predict the impact these rollbacks may have on environmental stressors in minority communities in the future.
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Democrats are expected to ask about the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks and prioritization of fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
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Democratic lawmakers that oppose Pruitt's regulatory rollbacks have seized on his scandals, with 170 of them calling for his resignation.
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The worst impacts of Trump's polluter-friendly rollbacks are yet to come, but what we have seen already is scary.
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Despite the rollbacks, it's still difficult in the U.S. to get a banking license, which has hampered some banking startups.
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Democratic attorneys general have waged their own legal wars on the Trump administration's travel ban, regulatory rollbacks, and family separations.
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Bank and financial firm executives are seeking significant rollbacks to the law but aren't asking lawmakers to repeal it altogether.
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Notably, that means they aren't expecting a big growth bump from tax cuts or regulatory rollbacks, as Trump has promised.
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Although other regulatory rollbacks might trigger apoplexy among green organizations, in this case they say they are certain of victory.
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This has been a truly terrible year for federal civil rights enforcement, with significant rollbacks at the Department of Education.
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This, along with a slew of other rollbacks, were compiled in a report published in the journal Science this May.
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S. tariff rollbacks left traders on edge and currency markets paralysed, ahead of the release of closely-watched manufacturing data.
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S. tariff rollbacks left traders on edge and currency markets paralysed, ahead of the release of closely-watched manufacturing data.
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So far, however, those rollbacks have failed to halt the market forces that continue to drive coal plants into retirement.
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President Donald Trump has vowed to boost annual growth to 3 percent through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and regulatory rollbacks.
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He's also made it clear, through regulatory rollbacks of breathtaking scope, that the Obama war on fossil fuels is over.
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Apparently, Trump's much-touted rollbacks of regulations protecting American workers and the environment had very little effect on economic growth.
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In recent years we've seen sensitive public lands habitat opened up to irresponsible development and rollbacks of fundamental environmental laws.
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These regulatory rollbacks, enacted or proposed, generally favor a big corporate constituent, a narrow special interest or an ideological purpose.
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The company gave $300,000 to Government Accountability & Oversight, a group focused on countering organizations that oppose Trump administration environmental rollbacks.
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The lack of Takata airbag replacements, the F.T.C.'s decision and other anticipated regulatory rollbacks proved to be too much.
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Fortunately, the Trump administration has begun dismantling onerous regulations by a pace of 16 regulation rollbacks for each new regulation.
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The rollbacks are taking place in the form of rules and less formal ways, such as so-called guidance documents.
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Per a New York Times analysis, more than 50 rollbacks have been completed under Trump, with another 30 in progress.
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"We're seeing a strong backlash to Betsy DeVos and her rollbacks of borrower protections at the federal level," she said.
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It was in that meeting that Murray passed along a wishlist of regulatory rollbacks that would benefit the coal industry.
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More broadly, HHS under President Donald Trump has made rollbacks of birth control coverage a core part of its agenda.
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Petronas is targeting lowering operating expenses, job cuts and project rollbacks to help it navigate through the low oil price environment.
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It represents the latest twist in one of the Trump administration's most consequential rollbacks of regulations designed to fight climate change.
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But how to approach the Paris Agreement divided senior members of the Trump administration unlike the other rollbacks of environmental protections.
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However, much of the voluminous act already has been implemented, making rollbacks costly, difficult to implement and, at some level, superfluous.
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Walmart says it will offer "thousands" of special deals and Rollbacks starting on July 14 — the day before Prime Day starts.
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Amid a backlash so widespread that it's launched its own parody video game, lawmakers have called for price rollbacks and investigations.
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Reinstating the auto mileage rules would be a return to what was already on the books before Trump-era rollbacks began.
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Environmental groups hailed what they depicted as a rare victory for the environment after several regulatory rollbacks by the Trump administration.
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Eisman believes that major rollbacks of financial regulation are unlikely, but that an overall lighter touch will be positive for banks.
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All eyes will be on Monday's hearing, as California is the bedrock for resistance against a number of Trump's regulatory rollbacks.
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Latinos are more likely to work in industries where the Trump-Pruitt rollbacks will severely impact the quality of human health.
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Johnson pointed to the Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks and the GOP tax overhaul, as well as Republicans' appointments of conservative judges.
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The EPA official said there are legitimate concerns about Pruitt's safety, given public opposition to his rollbacks of anti-pollution measures.
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Why it matters: For months Pruitt's various scandals have dominated headlines and distracted attention from the agency's regulatory rollbacks under Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal reported later in the day that both the United States and China were "actively considering" tariff rollbacks.
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His proposed rollbacks of emissions regulations for transportation and now power plants are an abdication of leadership in a warming world.
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Federal employees across multiple agencies said the administration was racing to complete a half-dozen significant rollbacks over the coming month.
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Speaking of which, we have a short guide to public hearings on the Trump administration's planned rollbacks of fuel-efficiency standards.
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Rollbacks of federal regulation of the environment, the workplace, health care and the voting booth are the constitutional grail for conservatives.
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The investigation, launched last September, had escalated a dispute over one of President Trump's most significant rollbacks of global warming regulations.
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Mr. Murray, a prominent Trump supporter, helped engineer dozens of climate change and environmental rollbacks over the past three years. 6.
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China exports fell in November for a fourth consecutive month as Beijing demands tariff rollbacks as part of any trade agreement.
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Reuters also reported last week that the interim deal could slide into 2020, given China's ask for more extensive tariff rollbacks.
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If the rollbacks are approved, car manufacturers will produce new vehicles with doddering technology, specifically for the U.S. market, she said.
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Critics have charged that some of the regulatory rollbacks have come at a cost to the environment, consumer protections, and health.
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Such rollbacks would be bad news for Americans' pocketbooks and our energy security, but they would not doom the Paris Agreement.
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His views on monetary policy are less defined, but he has advocated for major rollbacks of Dodd-Frank oversight of banks.
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It lays out most of the Trump administration's economic policies, from regulatory rollbacks to tariffs, and paints them as unqualified successes.
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Rollbacks of EPA regulations under the Trump administration have made pollution worse, which can engender even more feelings of individual powerlessness.
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His fingerprints are all over proposed rollbacks of environmental regulations covering cars, carbon emissions from power plants, coal ash and more.
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Here is list of 17 "rollbacks" made by Government in 14 days since #DeMonetisation And Fin Min says 100% perfect planning. Ha!
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The GOP has shown no desire to actually stop Trump's train of incompetence and corruption, because, well, tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.
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Despite the low-price environment, lower operating expenses, job cuts and project rollbacks helped the company post a profit increase in 2016.
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The instructions for "SUIT UP: Pushback to the Rollbacks," for instance, read like yogic directives: Take an EPA Suit and Suit Up!
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More regulatory rollbacks can and should be done, as they serve as the least efficient way to solve the carbon-pollution problem.
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President Trump has not yet spoken publicly on the issue despite his support for regulatory rollbacks to help the coal industry. Sen.
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MAILBAG: DEMS PUT PRESSURE ON EPA: Congressional Democrats sent various letters to the EPA Monday to fight against Trump's environmental policy rollbacks.
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Clinton pledged similar support, and even with a Republican-controlled Congress, she would have likely been able to forestall any major rollbacks.
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A California regulator is threatening to enact tough new rules in response to the Trump administration's proposed rollbacks of vehicle emission standards.
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Most voters agree these rollbacks are a "great example" of the corruption in Washington — especially among Democrats, independents and "definite" 2018 voters.
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The Thursday actions also fit with the administration's rollbacks of numerous environmental standards, with a focus on rules affecting fossil fuel industries.
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Two storylines are converging that could bring headwinds for the growth of U.S. electric vehicles: EPA's regulatory rollbacks and Tesla's rough patch.
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From smokestacks and cars to methane and coal, Mr. Trump's regulatory rollbacks have been systematic, and the atmospheric impact will be global.
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These rollbacks would rob Americans of the dream of homeownership, a vital part of the economic stability for families across the nation.
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"A US pledge to scrap tariffs scheduled for December 15 cannot replace the rollbacks of tariffs," the newspaper said in a tweet.
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And another story about how Mr. Pruitt's regulatory rollbacks, some of which have been hastily implemented, may not hold up in court.
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Democratic lawmakers described the NEPA changes as one of the worst environmental policies from an administration with a long list of rollbacks.
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And pointing out that regulatory rollbacks are both bad for the economy and likely to sicken or kill many Americans won't help.
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But it also raised serious doubts about the ability of Republicans to pass anything other than regulatory rollbacks or routine spending bills.
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The proposed rule adds to a long and growing list of environmental protection rollbacks by the administration during the last three years.
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After successive rollbacks in adherence to the deal's parameters over the past year in response to the sanctions, Iran announced on Jan.
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Reuters reported that completion of an initial U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year as Beijing presses for tariff rollbacks.
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And tribal leaders are reportedly taking advantage of the Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks to push for easier access to the possible reserves.
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Two dozen governors urged President Trump to halt one of his biggest climate policy rollbacks: the weakening of federal clean car rules.
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Two dozen governors urged President Trump to halt one of his biggest climate policy rollbacks: the weakening of federal clean car rules.
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"Just the number of environmental rollbacks in this time frame is astounding," said Richard Lazarus, a professor of environmental law at Harvard.
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Technically, the lawyer told Mr. Bernhardt, he had lobbied on a broad water bill — one with many provisions, not just smelt rollbacks.
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Retirees who lost big in the 2008 financial crisis have good reason to worry about President Trump's new rollbacks of Wall Street regulations.
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To do so, he has prescribed a mix of tax cuts, regulation rollbacks and increases in infrastructure spending to unleash American business investment.
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And increased rollbacks to Obama-era gun control legislation, particularly around background check policies, continue to hinder actions against large-scale gun violence.
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The analysis does not specify when the money would be realized, though it's largely dependent on the pace of regulatory rollbacks in Congress.
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Last year, Trump proposed sweeping regulatory rollbacks of most of his predecessor's aggressive environmental agenda — nearly 80 by this New York Times count.
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The new proposal shares the same ideological framework that has informed the Trump administration's agenda, including regulatory rollbacks and work requirements for Medicaid.
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Unsurprisingly, the American Heart Association and other health organisations have urged schools to ignore the rollbacks and stick with the Obama-era reforms.
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There are explicitly gender-focused issues like abortion or Title IX entitlement rollbacks, but we need stronger gender perspectives on other issues too.
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If Wheeler is more diligent about how he carries out his environmental rollbacks, they could be harder to challenge in court, Longstreth says.
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Perhaps it's because Microsoft's radical changes in Windows 8 scared them off and Windows 10's rollbacks haven't been enough to entice them.
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The health standard rollbacks aren't just about milk, though; they're also about cheese, particularly the sodium-rich cheeses commonly found in school cafeterias.
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While Democrats continue to criticize big banks as an unchecked risk to the economy, regulatory pressure has eased up amid Trump-era rollbacks.
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Any regulatory rollbacks could mean fewer aircraft passengers, hotel guests and travel customers, which could all result in less revenue for the airlines.
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He intends to focus on the national monument rollbacks, Zinke's ethics allegations and proposals to drill for oil and natural gas offshore. Rep.
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Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush sponsored massive rollbacks of financial regulations, including some that had been in place since the Great Depression.
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Trump said the rollbacks would help community banks and credit unions become "vibrant and strong," insisting years of overregulation had suffocated small firms.
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"It's part of the equation, but it's certainly not the only one," Hawkins said of Tester and Donnelly's support for Dodd-Frank rollbacks.
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Thursday's move by the Trump administration is the latest in a series of regulatory repeals or rollbacks intended to benefit the coal industry.
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On the Clean Power Plan, as on many of the regulatory rollbacks Trump prematurely boasts about, he has simply started a long process.
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President Trump has not yet spoken publicly on the issue despite his support for regulatory rollbacks meant to help the coal industry. Sen.
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The early impacts of the Trump rollbacks are beginning to emerge across the country, from California to North Dakota, Texas and West Virginia.
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While these rollbacks may help stoke markets, they could also lead to a less transparent financial system — and a repeat of past mistakes.
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But of all these rollbacks, perhaps the most galling is the weakening of the fuel-economy standards, which seems a betrayal of history.
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Like some of Mr. Trump's other rollbacks, the power plant decision will be fought in court by some states and by environmental groups.
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The rollbacks are part of the administration's effort to bring regulatory relief to the coal industry, and other major sources of air pollution.
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The rollbacks come amid surging oil and gas production that put the United States output ahead of historical leaders' Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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While the inspector general evaluated the agency's regulatory rollbacks, it "did not evaluate human health and environmental impacts or trends," the report said.
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Hundreds of indigenous women stormed the country's capital on August 13th to protest Bolsonaro's environmental rollbacks and encroachment of development on indigenous lands.
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Flaring and venting of methane, meanwhile, has jumped 383 percent compared with two years ago amid rollbacks of federal rules curbing such practices.
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Analysis of Federal Reserve data shows retailers have pocketed about $42 billion during this period, and shoppers are still waiting for those rollbacks.
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Reuters reported on Wednesday that negotiations to finalize a deal may extend into next year as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks.
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But the incident also took place against the backdrop of the Trump administration's ongoing rollbacks of protections for LGBTQ Americans and their families.
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Stocks in financial services and energy companies have boasted the biggest gains, reflecting likely rollbacks of Obama administration banking and environmental protection laws.
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California plans to sue over the vehicle rollbacks, arguing that the proposal constrains the state's longstanding authority to set its own car standards.
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Now Dems can begin holding hearings, gathering testimony, and strengthening the case that the rollbacks were not well considered, as required by law.
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Ms. Gunasekara said Mr. Wehrum, who formally steps down on Sunday, had always planned on leaving after some significant regulatory rollbacks were completed.
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To wit: Despite Trump's regulatory rollbacks, wind and solar power will keep growing, coal will keep declining, and US emissions will dip modestly.
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He signaled pretty clearly that he would sign into law Paul Ryan's preferred package of tax cuts and rollbacks to the welfare state.
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Since taking office, President Trump has initiated a number of rollbacks against Obama-era climate policies, including pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
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Unfortunately, neither the environmental rollbacks nor the health care crisis exists in a vacuum; Trump's reckless actions have dealt a blow to American families.
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President Donald Trump has promised aggressiveness in that regard, with tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending near the top of his priorities list.
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Congress has considered several rule rollbacks since 1996, but the procedure has successfully overturned only one agency final rule, according to the CRS note.
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He cast the agency's rollbacks as a way to reduce the regulatory burden on business while also protecting air and water quality for Americans.
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The result, they say, is that the rollbacks, intended to fulfill one of the president's central campaign pledges, may ultimately be undercut or reversed.
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He has presided over the largest rollbacks in federal land protections in US history and opened up unprecedented swaths of coastal waters for drilling.
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This is just the latest example of how Trump's rollbacks and reliance on voluntary safety measures are continuing to put people's lives at risk.
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More than a dozen state attorneys general, including those from Maryland, New York and Massachusetts, are challenging the administration on their rollbacks in court.
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Brown and other elected officials this week vowed to accelerate their own efforts to reduce emissions and develop renewable energy despite the federal rollbacks.
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Why it matters: This is a rare example of the Trump administration implicitly conceding some regulation is worthwhile, even as it seeks wholesale rollbacks.
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The promise of a giant fiscal stimulus program, tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks have buoyed stocks to record highs and driven bond yields higher.
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Context: President Trump has been a vocal supporter of nuclear power, and his recent rollbacks of environmental regulations could make nuclear more price competitive.
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Administration officials point to long-term historical averages, along with the beneficial impact of proposed tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks, to justify that forecast.
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Liberal groups are outraged by the rollbacks, but their traditional allies, Democratic lawmakers, have limited means to stop them in the Republican-dominated Congress.
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What has moved the needle, in a negative way, is the Republican party's systematic and cynical rollbacks of policies designed to slow climate change.
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Green groups and Democratic states have promised to sue the administration in federal court and to try to stop the rollbacks from taking effect.
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His regulatory rollbacks, like the water regulation, have kept him largely in the good graces of Trump, congressional Republicans and conservatives, despite the scandals.
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Wheeler's plan flies in the face of that mission, and it's why we as an organization oppose these rollbacks in the strongest possible terms.
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However, the yuan retreated after U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China.
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TRADE: Optimism about a trade deal faded after President Donald Trump said he has not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China.
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The group said it has achieved victories in 22 of the 28 court cases challenging Trump administration rollbacks or delays that have been resolved.
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But industry groups had been clamoring for rollbacks of the rules, and Trump administration officials began work quickly on dismantling the Obama-era restrictions.
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None have been the focus of rollbacks or investigations of misuse, or a source of financial hardship for lower-wage workers or small businesses.
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Kudlow added that the administration will continue to focus on tax policy and regulation rollbacks as it seeks to foster a healthier economic environment.
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The Trump administration is taking some steps to help nuclear power and coal, such as research investments for new technologies and unprecedented regulatory rollbacks.
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The project would be the latest in what has been a series of environmental conservation rollbacks by the Interior Department under President Donald Trump.
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Of all the Obama-era rollbacks that the Trump administration is targeting, net neutrality is probably the least understood, but its impact is substantial.
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Conservatives believe rescinding the endangerment finding is the key to further deregulation and worry rollbacks currently underway will stall unless EPA overturns the determination.
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Advocates for banks and lenders regulated by the CFPB who supported Mulvaney's rollbacks praised Kraninger's confirmation and urged her to wield her power carefully.
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If the Trump administration ever finalizes these legally questionable rollbacks, there is a good chance a new Democratic administration will soon be taking over.
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The health and environmental effects of the Trump rollbacks, as documented by a Times investigation published this week, are far-reaching and potentially devastating.
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The proposed rollbacks of the safety rules governing offshore drilling are no less revealing of this administration's fealty to the oil and gas industry.
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In it, Mr. Murray, the head of Murray Energy, presented Mr. Trump with a wish list of environmental rollbacks just weeks after the inauguration.
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The proposal is one of dozens of environmental protection rollbacks that the Trump administration is scrambling to finalize before the presidential election in November.
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Most of Mr. Trump's early "policy" moves have consisted of sweeping regulatory rollbacks, and many of the most damaging of these face court challenges.
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The rollbacks span across the environmental spectrum, from clean air and water rules, to loosening regulations governing oil and gas extraction, to wildlife protections.
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If reinforced by rollbacks planned by the E.P.A. in car fuel economy standards and other regulations, the administration's distortion will have far-reaching consequences.
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"This is why I am running for Congress," Ocasio-Cortez said after the House passed a sweeping set of banking rollbacks in June 2017.
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But in doing so, along with all his other rollbacks, he would further weaken America's standing in the increasingly urgent fight against climate change.
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Trump's agenda of tax reform, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending has largely gotten held up on Capitol Hill, putting a cap on growth expectations.
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Schneiderman has promised to sue the EPA when it repeals the Clean Power Plan, and has already sued Trump numerous times for regulatory rollbacks.
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Thanks to six months of regulatory rollbacks, we can expect more coal waste in our water, methane leaks in our air, and species endangered.
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The Trump administration has quietly reversed rollbacks put in place by Obama that limited the amount of surplus military equipment police departments could use.
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Most of these rollbacks' impacts will be felt primarily in the long term, but already, particulate pollution is getting worse, reversing years of progress.
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Just weeks after last January's inauguration, Robert E. Murray, the head of Murray Energy, presented Mr. Trump with a wish list of environmental rollbacks.
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That will most likely touch off a barrage of lawsuits from Democratic-governed states and environmental activists who have vowed to fight the rollbacks.
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Businesses eagerly awaiting regulation rollbacks from the Trump administration may get them in an unexpected place: the internet, according to new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
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Mayhew shared LePage's staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid, and under her leadership the state proposed some of the most aggressive eligibility rollbacks of any state.
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Rollbacks of environmental regulations and aggressive tweeting about North Korea mean we can now worry about two apocalypses at once: nuclear winter and climate change.
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The Environmental Protection Agency, now led by acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, has announced more rollbacks regulations on coal-fired power plants.
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If you combine that with regulatory rollbacks and a stable dollar, within less than a year the U.S. economy can break out of its doldrums.
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Michael Flynn's resignation, he took a Skype question on regulation rollbacks from Jason Stevens, of the Federalist Papers website that featured some editorializing from Stevens.
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Analysts and individuals are concerned by the influence of fake news and anticipated rollbacks in legislation ranging from healthcare to climate change to highway safety.
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Despite these regressive rollbacks in women's health, the good news is that some state legislatures are actually working to push access to birth control forward.
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Separately, House Democrats on Tuesday demanded records and information from the Environmental Protection Agency about the administration's rollbacks of Obama-era climate policies (The Hill).
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Many of the administration's attempts at regulatory rollbacks—of which there are 83 related to the environment, at last count—end up in the courts.
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The New York Times found the two groups worked through other conservative and energy groups to push favorable reception of the rollbacks on fuel standards.
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Such steps are possible if the administration is willing to offer Kim real rewards for demonstrable concessions, like freezes or rollbacks on Pyongyang's weapons programs.
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President Donald Trump's economic program of tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending has yet to get off the ground five months into his presidency.
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Schneiderman has sued the Trump administration dozens of times in the past year over numerous policy decisions across the government, including environmental rollbacks or delays.
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Under Mr. Pruitt, who resigned July 5 under a cloud of ethics investigations, the agency pushed for ambitious but fast-paced rollbacks of environmental rules.
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"This will be part of the legal challenges to these regulatory rollbacks," said Richard L. Revesz, an expert in environmental law at New York University.
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Trump and Putin meet face to face; the latest US jobs report exceeds expectations; 19 states sue Betsy DeVos over her rollbacks of fraud protections.
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The rollbacks have been popular across Louisiana, which is home to dozens of companies that serve offshore operations and is where Mr. Angelle grew up.
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But many of the rollbacks, such as the ones that eliminated limits and reporting requirements on methane releases, will delay meaningful action on climate change.
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"If kids aren't eating the food, and it's ending up in the trash, they aren't getting any nutrition," Mr. Perdue said in announcing the rollbacks.
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The new rules follow two regulatory rollbacks this year that, taken together, represent the foundation of the United States' effort to rein in global warming.
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Sacramento alone has brought more than 30 environmental lawsuits, most of them to stop the rollbacks of climate change regulations enacted under the Obama administration.
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West Virginia small business owners are concerned about how health care rollbacks will affect not only their businesses but also their local economies and communities.
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Certain sectors that had reached stratospheric levels of late on hopes of promised regulatory rollbacks and other propulsive policy measures are now tumbling to earth.
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The budget office said the bill would raise insurance deductibles, and that it would lead to substantial rollbacks of state Medicaid coverage for the poor.
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Still, the Global Times report noted that Washington and Beijing had not agreed on specifics or the size of rollbacks of tariffs on Chinese goods.
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In his nearly eight months leading the CFPB, he's eased the agency's oversight of the financial sector and sought rollbacks of major Obama-era regulations.
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Large majorities of Americans surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll disagree with the Environmental Protection Agency's deregulation rollbacks of carbon control and public health protections.
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And top Democrats in the Senate, who have stood in the way of regulatory rollbacks in the past, have indicated they are interested as well.
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Regulatory rollbacks could harm workplace safety Trump's infrastructure plan aims to curtail regulations, supposedly reducing the amount of red tape that infrastructure industries must navigate.
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The Dodd-Frank rollbacks have been particularly helpful to community banks, whose share prices collectively are up more than 24.1 percent over the past year.
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The decision in May to withdraw the Obama administration's proposal to block Pebble Mine was one of a series of related rollbacks by Trump's EPA.
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And Democratic lawmakers have been awaiting their chance to grill him on the rollbacks and delays of environmental enforcement at the EPA on his watch.
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In his op-ed, Mulvaney reiterates the standard catalogue of policies that Republicans say would boost growth: tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and cutting government spending.
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And then there's acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, who has presided over numerous rollbacks and revisions of regulations intended to fight climate change.
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ET. The three candidates pledge to reverse the Trump administration's rollbacks of LGBTQ protections, including the ban on transgender military service members and religious exemption policies.
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I will immediately rejoin the Paris climate agreement and undo the Trump administration's executive actions and rollbacks that have weakened our commitment to combating climate change.
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Small businesses, citing tax reform and regulatory rollbacks, reported the highest level of optimism in the National Federation of Independent Business monthly survey's 45-year history.
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Some of the biggest global companies are seeking to emphasize a social license to produce fossil fuels even as the Trump administration pursues aggressive regulatory rollbacks.
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As Trump steps into office, environmental groups are watching out for rollbacks to climate policy, "fully ready to hit the green button on litigation," Belenky says.
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"By and large, his rollbacks have not yet passed the proposal stage, and some of them are not even at the proposal stage yet," Doniger says.
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Outdoor recreation groups, conservationists, and Native American tribes have already sued to block many of these rollbacks, and in some cases, courts have ruled against Zinke.
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It appears that Wheeler is on track to do more of the same — and his insider instincts and methodical nature could mean even more effective rollbacks.
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I think you'll have major rollbacks of whether it's executive orders or regulations, putting people in place who are going to do those type of things.
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These systematic rollbacks, chipping away at Obamacare, follow a tough summer for the GOP as they tried, and failed, to repeal the ACA in multiple forms.
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And some members of Congress who receive farm subsidies or did so in the past have been vocal in their support for the SNAP rollbacks. Rep.
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But some of the cheer evaporated after President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China.
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But four more years of Trump means four more years of lifetime judicial appointments for conservative judges who might be more inclined to allow the rollbacks.
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His administration has also catalyzed rollbacks on a variety of environmental policies, including the US Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water regulations.
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Pruitt's allies' concern is that without getting these rollbacks enshrined in law, many of EPA's environmental regulations could snap back into place under a future administration.
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For now, Zinke continues to deliver rollbacks on environmental rules for coal, oil, and natural gas on public lands, a key plank of the president's agenda.
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Trump has proposed a mix of tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks as well as spending on the country's decaying public buildings, roads, bridges and transportation system.
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California has already sued the Trump administration over the proposed rollbacks and is threatening fresh legal action should Washington insist that the state fall into line.
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A spokeswoman for the House Ways and Means Committee said the additional proposed healthcare tax rollbacks would not be part of the broader tax overhaul bill.
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"We need more effective regulation and enforcement, not rollbacks driven by Wall Street and predatory lenders," said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform.
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But these actions are consistent with a DOI — led by a former oil and gas lobbyist — who has enacted numerous and unprecedented rollbacks in environmental protections.
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Democratic senators wasted no time Tuesday hounding the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over his regulatory rollbacks and potential ulterior motives at the agency.
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"The most expedient and hasty way to accomplish those rollbacks is through the regular guidance documents that we have seen so far from EPA," he said.
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We've diced up some categories and the most-talked-about toys in them, but you can find the full list of the October toy rollbacks here.
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Giulia Grillo, the health minister, has supported rollbacks of vaccine obligations and fired Italy's board of technical-scientific experts for, she said, the sake of change.
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Pence alluded to their hardship in his remarks Tuesday but cited rollbacks of regulations and tax cuts as proof the administration is focused on aiding farmers.
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The Trump administration, known for its regulatory rollbacks, said it would move forward with its "Cleaner Trucks Initiative" that targets curbing emissions from heavy-duty engines.
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The big picture: This was a messaging vote to hit Trump's regulatory rollbacks and rejection of mainstream climate science — and put Republicans on record about it.
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"These rollbacks are indefensible, both in terms of their costs to consumers and their contravention of Congressional intent," they wrote in a letter spearheaded by Sens.
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As questions swirl about whether President Donald Trump's rollbacks will harm the environment, one crucial factor looms large over the fate of emission standards: consumers' wallets.
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The federal government is also prohibited from simply deleting the regulations: The Administrative Procedures Act requires evidence, hearings, and justification for major regulatory changes, including rollbacks.
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It would also stop federal agencies from defending the Trump administration's rollbacks of emission regulations in court while a Bloomberg administration develops stronger limits on pollutants.
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Giulia Grillo, the health minister, has supported rollbacks of vaccine obligations and fired Italy's board of technical-scientific experts for, she said, the sake of change.
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Analysts on Wall Street are cheering the agreement as slightly better than they had expected, though there's some disappointment that the tariff rollbacks didn't go further.
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On top of the issues directly in front of the high court, the Trump administration proposed sweeping rollbacks to protections within the Endangered Species Act in July.
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The transgender people I know are exhausted by the current attacks, afraid of future rollbacks, and worried that court decisions to come could endanger our rights further.
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In the face of such rollbacks, people must remember that our right to vote is intrinsically tied to every civil and human rights issue we're confronting today.
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There also will be more exclusive merchandise than it ever has had, and it's keeping its distance from one-off promotions in favor of 90-day rollbacks.
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Petronas, as the company is known, is relying on lower operating expenses, job cuts and project rollbacks to help it navigate through a low oil price environment.
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Perdue's rollbacks mean that, schools now have until 2024 to further reduce school lunch sodium requirements, and is reducing the amount of whole grains required each week.
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So if President Trump gets his tax cuts and continues his regulatory rollbacks, the economy will return to its historic norm of 3-to-4 percent growth.
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Well-researched and scientifically supported rules can bring enormous benefits to the American people, but regulatory rollbacks for little more than deregulation's sake can cause great harm.
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What Booker is doing: Booker promised to strengthen EPA protections, expand the number of EPA employees and reverse rollbacks that have taken place during the Trump administration.
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He insisted the proposed rollbacks would have a limited impact on system-wide capital and liquidity, though analysts say several major banks would experience much looser standards.
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The lawsuits have fought delays, rollbacks and changes to federal methane pollution rules, ozone pollution rules, appliance energy efficiency standards and vehicle fuel efficiency, among other policies.
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Last summer, feminist activists dressed up like characters from The Handmaid's Tale, the Hulu TV show based on Margaret Atwood's novel, to protest rollbacks in reproductive rights.
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It has also been a finger in the eye of the Trump administration on climate policy; for instance, it has challenged his rollbacks on fuel-efficiency standards.
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But the votes in the Democratic-led House were meant to send a signal to Republicans who have supported rollbacks of environmental regulations on oil and gas.
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Investors, in other words, are nervous because they are losing faith in Trump's power to carry out the profit-friendly tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks he promised.
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The president's pivot to calling for rollbacks of social distancing and businesses to reopen has left political observers perplexed over how such a goal could be achieved.
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But people who follow environmental policy closely say that Mr. Pruitt's most significant legacy is unfolding quietly, away from the spotlight of personal scandals and regulatory rollbacks.
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These rollbacks may well be supported by large financial companies, but letting massive financial institutions write their own rules is exactly what led to the Great Recession.
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Over the past three years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed and even championed regulatory rollbacks that would dilute the Clean Water Act and other protections.
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Environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund are outraged by these moves, and have vowed to fight any rollbacks in court.
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His administration has also catalyzed rollbacks on a variety of environmental policies, including the US Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Agency&aposs clean-water regulations.
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In October, trade negotiators reached another tentative deal without tariff rollbacks, only for hard-liners in Beijing to again demand revisions again and a removal of tariffs.
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While the real Black Friday rollbacks don't start until Thanksgiving Day (November 23rd) at 6pm, a lot of these items already have price drops — so shop on.
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A dealer at a Chinese bank also said traders wanted official confirmation on the trade deal and tariff rollbacks before opening large long position in the yuan.
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Bruce WestermanBruce Eugene WestermanOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks The Hill's Morning Report - An incredibly busy week; Iowa caucuses today MORE (R-Ark.) backs a measure that would commit the United States to plant 3.3 billion trees each year over the next 30 years.
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She recently wrote a piece on the dangers of artificial fertilizer, and in May she focused on President Donald Trump's rollbacks on environmental rules and regulations for businesses.
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Wall Street and the banks are back, but investors should be careful about sky-high expectations of regulatory rollbacks, Goldman Sachs Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Scherr said Tuesday.
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This will allow developers to collaborate in real time, access their development files online and work across computing platforms to do things like manage permissions, versions and rollbacks.
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In addition to revamping the scientific advisory boards, Pruitt has met almost exclusively with fossil fuel interests while freezing out his agency's own scientists from reviewing regulatory rollbacks.
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"We are not talking in any way, shape or form about any environmental rollbacks here," said Katie Sweeney, general counsel for the National Mining Association, a trade group.
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In Chang's world, the only meaningful antidote to inequality is more jobs for everyone, which is what Republicans — with their tax cuts and regulation rollbacks — promise to bring.
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And we need action in matters that affect millions of lives, including the reckless rollbacks on civil rights and harmful cuts to vital programs by the Trump administration.
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A senior administration official also told the WSJ that a deal would include tariff rollbacks; Politico previously reported that China had asked for the removal of such tariffs.
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The more than 50 such initiatives tracked by a Brookings Institution project have included rollbacks of coal plant emissions and state waivers related to the Affordable Care Act.
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Not Afraid asked for regulatory rollbacks, urged approval of a new Pacific coal export terminal and sought to make permanent a 10 percent Indian coal production tax credit.
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Neither option is acceptable to Republicans, so they're left with the AHCA solution — massive rollbacks in coverage that they try to paper over with a lot of handwaving.
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The Crapo bill is effectively the ceiling for Dodd-Frank rollbacks until the GOP has 6900 seats in the Senate with control of the House and White House.
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Automakers at the time were relatively unprepared for such significant rollbacks, with many previously asking for more leeway in achieving Obama's 2025 goals, instead of a full freeze.
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Once the dust from his resignation settles, much of Pruitt's regulatory rollbacks might play well with his tribe, and it's possible voters in Oklahoma would overlook his transgressions.
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A wholesale regulatory rollbacks calls into question whether gas should be considered a cleaner fuel, according to Matt Watson, an associate vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Just this week, a group of high profile senators sent a letter to Chairman Pai and the FCC, objecting to the organization's proposed rollbacks of net neutrality protections.
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A former Obama administration official who helped craft the 2013 plan said the push for expanded drilling access is part of a pattern of Trump-era environmental rollbacks.
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It's fair to say that those two broad dynamics — the Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks and the stubborn march of clean energy — have fought each other to a standstill.
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The methodology, which five current or former agency officials described to The Times, could be used by the Trump administration to defend further rollbacks of air pollution rules.
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Days before William Wehrum was confirmed to run E.P.A.'s Office of Air and Regulation, a petrochemical industry executive sent the agency a wish-list of regulatory rollbacks.
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Supporters say the White House sees in Mr. Wheeler the anti-Pruitt: drama-free, low-key, and, most importantly, able to get the proposed rollbacks through the courts.
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In the face of unprecedented rollbacks at the agency designed to protect Americans' health and their environment, former EPA chiefs harken back to what prompted the EPA's creation.
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Trump's pro-business agenda of lower taxes and increased infrastructure spending has stalled in Congress, though he has been able to enact some regulatory rollbacks through executive orders.
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But as President Trump's rollbacks of Obama's climate policies have shown, anything that can be implemented just by a new administration can be repealed just by the next.
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Despite years of regulatory actions, class-action suits and fee rollbacks by companies, there is still confusion over the way some rental car companies deal with electronic tolls.
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Mr. Obama's letter, along with "exit memos" from each of his cabinet secretaries to be released on Thursday, is intended to make a closing argument against the rollbacks.
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The same person familiar said President Donald Trump has not indicated that he's ready to fire Pruitt, who he believes has been massively successful in his regulatory rollbacks.
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Apparently, in March of last year, Robert Murray listed 16 regulatory rollbacks that would make him more profitable The Trump administration is well on its way to complying.
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At the same time, he and other lawmakers pressed Mr. Wheeler on the string of regulatory rollbacks as well as his and Mr. Trump's positions on climate change.
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Rollbacks: We counted more than 80 environmental rules and regulations on the way out under Mr. Trump (using research from Harvard and Columbia law schools and other sources).
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Rollbacks: We counted more than 80 environmental rules and regulations on the way out under Mr. Trump (using research from Harvard and Columbia law schools and other sources).
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No, conservatives are much safer on traditional ground, decrying subsidies for energy sources they oppose while funneling government resources, mandates, and regulatory rollbacks to energy sources they favor.
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The livestock lobby wants repeal on certain national monument designations in the West and rollbacks of environmental rules now designed to protect a bird known as the sage-grouse.
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Trump has appointed mostly traditional conservatives to staff his administration, which has led to predictably conservative policy: conservative budgets, conservative regulatory rollbacks, conservative Supreme Court and other judicial appointments.
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Story at a glance The Trump administration is reportedly working to clarify the rollbacks implemented in the Migratory Bird Act in late December, according to an official press release.
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Environmental activists said they intended to challenge the rollbacks in court, something they will be able to do when E.P.A. issues a final rule, most likely early next year.
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What's more, the retailer offers free two-day shipping on tons of its products (move over, Amazon Prime) and regularly adds extra rollbacks to its already marked-down prices.
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Wheeler's nomination has cheered business interests eager to see reduced regulation, but upset Democrats and conservation groups worried that environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration are going too far.
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The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday to announce rollbacks of wetland protections that were put in place during former President Obama's presidency, according to The New York Times.
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In a brief order, the court said North Carolina could not, at least for now, enforce its recent rollbacks of same-day voter registration and out-of-precinct voting.
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"I personally think that he can weather this storm, given that he's proven to work hard on accomplishing many of the regulatory rollbacks that the president wants," he said.
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Democrats are likely to press him on major regulatory rollbacks on air pollution, climate change and water rules, while the GOP will likely highlight his work to help businesses.
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Across the federal government, agencies have faced dozens of lawsuits by Democratic attorneys general seeking to stop regulatory rollbacks, challenge new policies, force new rules or achieve other ends.
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As the U.S. and China ponder on a new location for the signing of the so-called "phase one" trade deal, China is pushing for more rollbacks in tariffs.
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In letters to the leaders of those five agencies, McHenry said, "Congress expects swift action" and asked how long it would take for the regulators to finish the rollbacks.
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Trump has also pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement and praised Pruitt for the EPA's regulatory rollbacks, which were a major part of his campaign promises.
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But some Pruitt rollbacks don't seem to fit into any broader conservative agenda: they don't grant significantly more discretion to the states, or seem likely to create many jobs.
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Trump's promises on infrastructure spending, tax cuts, regulation rollbacks and a renegotiation of trade deals could quickly spur higher inflation, which may necessitate a faster pace of rate hikes.
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More fundamentally, this report shows that despite the regulatory rollbacks and accompanying rhetoric, Trump's EPA is keeping intact certain climate protocol that's been in place since the 1990's.
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While DeVos has not publicly stated her position, in her short tenure at the Department of Education, she has already overseen rollbacks of Obama-era sexual assault investigation policies.
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"It shows serial lawbreaking and sloppiness by a Trump administration bent on rollbacks," said John Walke, the director of the clean air project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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But rights supporters have raised concerns about the propriety of feting the leaders, many of whom have presided over serious abuses or rollbacks of democratic freedoms in recent years.
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According to an analysis by researchers at Harvard, these rollbacks could lead to more than 80,000 extra deaths per decade and cause respiratory problems for over a million people.
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Environmental opposition: Federal scientists and lawyers, told by the Trump administration to undo regulations, have embedded data into technical documents that environmental lawyers are using to challenge the rollbacks.
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If there is a single industry that has been at the center of the fight — both during the Obama expansion of rules and the Trump rollbacks — it is coal.
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"These rollbacks allow offshore oil companies to self-police and prioritize industry profits over safety," said Diane Hoskins, the campaign director for offshore drilling at Oceana, an advocacy group.
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The United States will attend the talks and, despite the intended rollbacks, is expected to push other countries to be more transparent about their own plans for cutting emissions.
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In fact, the Washington Post recently published an in-depth analysis of how discrimination and policy rollbacks by the Trump Administration have led to a decline in black homeownership.
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"While I often despair deeply about our current administration's rollbacks, inaction and insanity of denying the science of climate change, I am deeply encouraged by the conversation," she said.
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His nomination has cheered business interests keen to see reduced regulation, but upset Democrats and conservation groups worried that environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration are going too far.
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Here's how they're doing it: Regulators are weakening protections for wildlife, air quality, and groundwater supplies, often by following what the Times describes as "detailed industry scripts" for rollbacks.
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"I bet Health and Human Services is going to do something about this whipping boy that will involve substantive rollbacks before this episode is over," the "Mad Money " host said.
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"I bet Health and Human Services is going to do something about this whipping boy that will involve substantive rollbacks before this episode is over," the "Mad Money " host said.
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At CPAC on Saturday, Pruitt reiterated his call to dismantle some of Obama's environment regulations "in a very aggressive way," and said that his first rollbacks could come next week.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said that boosting the economy and jobs is a top priority, and has promised tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and regulatory rollbacks to boost economic growth.
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President Trump initiated a major review this week of his predecessors' use of the Antiquities Act to protect land and water, which could lead to some rollbacks of previous protections.
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And a bill moving through the Senate with enough bipartisan support to beat a filibuster would represent one of the first statutory rollbacks of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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From climate change to the worsening refugee crisis to rollbacks of LGBTQ rights, you've probably reacted to a lot of deeply troubling news in your Facebook news feed this year.
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The president's pro-growth agenda of tax reform, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending has helped drive market sentiment even as Congress has been slow to take action on the plans.
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Republicans are touting the tax plan and regulatory rollbacks as they defend a vulnerable House majority, while Democrats insist the bill amounts to little more than handout for big corporations.
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Waters, a fierce defender of Dodd-Frank, is poised to chair the Financial Services Committee next year and lead the Democratic opposition to the regulatory rollbacks proposed by Trump officials.
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Investors appeared to be more focused on a Reuters report that completion of an initial U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year as Beijing presses for tariff rollbacks.
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The specific vision for repealing the ACA is pretty clear — a big tax cut for the rich, financed by huge rollbacks in health coverage for working class and poor families.
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Some former agency officials, mostly from the Obama administration, have decried the rollbacks, saying the measures being targeted were aimed at protecting the public against significant health and safety threats.
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The industry has been pushing for long-sought regulatory rollbacks in the face of the crisis, arguing they will ease lending and cushion the blow of the incoming economic shock.
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Mr. Pruitt himself stepped down this month, having launched major regulatory rollbacks at the E.P.A. while striking an industry-friendly stance that his successor, Andrew Wheeler, is expected to continue.
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But with all of Trump's rollbacks of environmental protections, joining the drive to plant a trillion trees stands to be one of his most significant actions to help the planet.
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In a short ad released Tuesday night, Biden's team accused Sanders of levying false and negative attacks on the former vice president for supposedly advocating for rollbacks to Social Security.
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The coalition consists of Republicans eager to make whatever rollbacks they can to Dodd-Frank and moderate Democrats up running for reelection in states that supported President Trump in 85033.
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With Congress pushing through rollbacks to the Dodd-Frank reforms passed following the financial crisis, Dudley said the lessons from the systemic failure of the banking system shouldn't be ignored.
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In Burns, some ranchers and others are feeling emboldened, hopeful that regulatory rollbacks by the federal government will return lands to private use and shore up a long-struggling economy.
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The news comes after Tehran's series of progressive rollbacks in compliance over the last year to the multilateral 2015 agreement that was meant to keep Iran's nuclear program in check.
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Reports abound that there's still distance between the United States and China on key issues such as agricultural purchases and tariff rollbacks, and that negotiators could be at an impasse.
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Republican control of Congress and the White House has already achieved tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks, booming small-business growth, a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal and more.
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The mining group's members include coal companies, which stand to benefit from proposed Pruitt rollbacks of Obama-era initiatives on fossil-fuel power plants and disposal of toxic coal ash.
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His desire for rollbacks related to food and drug protections, clean water and financial regulations shows a man who is anything but a servant of and for the American people.
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On Tuesday, he formally shifted his stance by unveiling his own financial reform plan, one which proposes expanding Dodd-Frank and undoing many of the rollbacks of the Trump years.
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President Trump has touted his ability to reach lofty economic goals, with officials arguing that his tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and the infrastructure plan will usher in faster economic growth.
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These rollbacks have been "part of their plan to dismantle ACA from the very beginning," Mary Alice Carter, executive director of Equity Forward, a reproductive rights watchdog group, told Vox.
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"The Republicans have often been faced with a dilemma that their approach in domestic policy is to support rollbacks of social programs," said Dave Hopkins, a political scientist at Boston College.
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At town halls this week, GOP lawmakers are getting earfuls from voters unhappy with possible rollbacks to Obamacare, and at times struggling to defend a replacement bill that doesn't yet exist.
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Blumenthal asked Muilenburg if he would attribute the crashes to regulatory rollbacks that allowed airlines to self-police themselves and whether he would back legislation to beef up the FAA's oversight.
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The organizers expected to be pushing Hillary Clinton (who tweeted her support for the march) toward effective climate policy; instead, the focus was on preventing rollbacks of already insufficient decarbonization policies.
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Because the game now is all going to be a ground game in the states to protect against rollbacks in gains that we've made in the last two or three decades.
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On Saturday, thousands of people across the country and world participated in Climate Change Marches to protest the Trump administration's rollbacks of climate change policies put in place by President Obama.
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They also cite a dangerous disregard for climate change reflected in the Trump administration, which has initiated some rollbacks of fossil fuel regulations and dropped out of the Paris climate accord.
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After all, Trump already has run into problems enacting his aggressive agenda of tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending boosts, and there are other fundamental barriers in play as well.
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Bush wouldn't weigh in on rumors that Trump will announce rollbacks of former President Barack Obama's Cuba policies in a speech in Miami, home to Bush and a large Cuban population.
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CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify that some of the lawmakers who support SNAP rollbacks currently receive subsidies and other supporters have received federal farm subsidies in the past.
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More far-reaching rollbacks were discussed several years ago but never occurred, according to a person who has been involved in Ms. Spears's care who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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The nods and winks about tariff rollbacks being part of any trade deal left a marginally more positive tilt in Asia stocks trading, but most major indices there also ended flat.
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In addition to support for strong federal methane rules from Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and Equinor, a bill to block and reverse the administration's methane rollbacks recently was introduced in the House.
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Pushback: Critics warn the shift will make it easier for the Trump administration to take the heat off rollbacks to key Obama administration pollution rules like the Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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"Rollbacks by President Trump are unlikely to have a major impact on global emissions by 2030," it said, projecting that China and India would rely less heavily than expected on coal.
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The pace of President Trump's regulatory rollbacks at the Environmental Protection Agency is slower than I had predicted in January, though this summer is gearing up to be a busy one.
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Reuters reported, citing trade experts and people close to the Trump administration, the completion of a partial trade deal could be pushed into 2020 as China seeks more extensive tariff rollbacks.
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Still stung by rollbacks of presidential power after Watergate, Nixon acolytes Cheney and Rumsfeld had pushed for extreme executive privilege and for America to be a swaggering hyperpower in the world.
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Capital Economics analyst Kieran Clancy said while the response from central banks was encouraging, the impact would be minimal without a significant slowdown in infections and rollbacks in government containment measures.
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The move is the latest, and one of the most significant, in the Trump administration's steady march of rollbacks of Obama-era health and environmental regulations on polluting industries, particularly coal.
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The decision follows a series of regulatory rollbacks and political appointments within the Trump administration's EPA that have been criticized by former EPA administrators as favoring industry interests over the environment.
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With a presidential election coming in November, the Trump administration is moving quickly to finalize dozens of regulatory rollbacks and other actions to weaken environmental protections viewed as burdensome by industry.
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The regulatory rollbacks passed by Congress and signed by President Trump so far have favored broad corporate interests or narrow special interests at the expense of human health, safety and security.
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Last week, the Trump administration proposed regulatory rollbacks to the act, changing how the federal government plans to address the environmental impacts of its actions -- including highway, bridge and pipeline construction.
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He also targets environmental rollbacks eyed by the Trump administration, saying he would "restore the integrity" of bedrock conservation laws such the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.
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"The court gave them a pretty big out that they will run through because it's the Trump administration," Walke said, referring to numerous rollbacks undertaken while Trump has been in office.
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"Still, caution remains as traders are awaiting some clarity on the deal signing venue and date along with the exact measure of tariff rollbacks," said Stephen Innes, market strategist at AxiTrader.
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The Treasury Department discussed a potential merger of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ahead of a Friday report floating several rollbacks of capital markets regulations.
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The coalition consists of Republicans eager to make whatever rollbacks they can to Dodd-Frank and moderate Democrats up running for re-election in states that supported President Trump in 2016.
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A surge in dividends and share buybacks coupled with growing prospects of regulatory rollbacks are bolstering the case for the largest financial institutions, analyst Richard Ramsden said in a research note.
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Many of these proposals haven't taken effect, and some have been shot down in the courts as environmental groups, states, and activists have challenged the federal government's rollbacks of environmental protections.
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But critics say that regulatory rollbacks could put kids' safety at risk, and that the Trump budget fails to address the current lack of federal funding for subsidies and provider pay.
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Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is already facing lawsuits from state attorneys general over rollbacks of protections for students from schools that used illegal practices to encourage students to borrow.
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But if things go wrong with the other levers — policy rollbacks, high technology costs, social resistance, more-sensitive-than-expected climate response, whatever — negative emissions can be thought of as insurance.
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The company's CEO, Robert Murray, is among the coal sector's most vocal advocates for rollbacks of environmental and safety oversight, frequently arguing that government regulation is unnecessarily onerous and costly for companies.
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Across the globe, there have been at least 3,700 rollbacks of laws that protected natural land across more than 3,000 areas, some of which had been protected since 7503, the study found.
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Warren's latest policy offering on Friday was filled as well with calls for people to take action, both by letting their opposition to abortion rollbacks be known and to run for office.
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Republican businessman-turned-politician Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, has promised tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and infrastructure spending that he says will boost economic growth.
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"This sobering statistic captures only a small fraction of the cumulative public health damages associated with the full range of rollbacks and systemic actions proposed by the Trump administration," the authors write.
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This time around, Walmart is debuting some new Rollbacks (its price drops) on a number of products, but the retailer isn't really trying to run a competitive sales event of its own.
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Regulatory rollbacks of note over the past year included net neutrality, the contraception care coverage requirement for employers, and a slew of environmental rules; those reversals are being challenged in court, too.
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The Reproductive Health Equity Act would protect from federal rollbacks of the ACA, ensuring reproductive health services for all Oregonians, no matter how much money they earn and whatever their immigration status.
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"By ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment we can provide a strong legal protection for women's rights and prevent rollbacks from Congress or presidential administrations," said State Senator Heather Steans in a statement.
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And at the same time, analysts believe the economy will hit the Trump administration's 3 percent annual growth target this year, fueled by the $1.5 trillion tax cut package and regulation rollbacks.
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The list goes on, with rollbacks to let banks, for-profit colleges, federal contractors, cable companies and other businesses that have hurt and exploited Americans in the past resume their discredited ways.
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"This sobering statistic captures only a small fraction of the cumulative public health damages associated with the full range of rollbacks and systemic actions proposed by the Trump administration," the scientists said.
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The way he was able to cast deregulation as, in part, an evangelical faith issue, allowed him to successfully maintain a solid base of evangelical support for mass rollbacks in environmental protections.
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Analysis WASHINGTON — After making good on tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks that business leaders wanted, President Trump has turned to a part of his economic agenda that many of them feared: tariffs.
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Federal scientists and lawyers, told to undo regulations that they have worked on for decades, have quietly embedded data into technical documents that environmental lawyers are now using to challenge the rollbacks.
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The new analytical model would significantly reduce that number and would most likely be used by the Trump administration to defend further rollbacks of air pollution rules if it is formally adopted.
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Mr. Pruitt has initiated more than a dozen regulatory rollbacks, including signing a measure declaring his intent to undo or weaken Mr. Obama's climate change regulations known as the Clean Power Plan.
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Potential rollbacks of personal freedoms — from abortion rights to the Second Amendment — have galvanized opponents on the left and the right, as have concerns about protections for the environment and public education.
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The E.P.A. has been at the center of the Trump administration's agenda to reduce the regulations on industry, and Mr. Wheeler has been instrumental in seeing through rollbacks of major environmental policies.
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Trump-era rollbacks of Interior Department rules that govern methane releases, and a requirement that oil and gas companies disclose fracking chemicals they use on federal land, also followed intervention by industry.
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Mark M. Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, predicted that tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and deficit-financed spending would fuel faster growth in the first half of Mr. Trump's four-year term.
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GOP leaders are looking at that legislative method to pass ObamaCare repeal and tax reform over a potential Democrat filibuster, but could add in Dodd-Frank rollbacks that receive universal Republican support.
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Reuters also reported Wednesday, citing trade experts and sources close to the Trump administration, that completion of a partial deal could be delayed until 2020 as China pursues more comprehensive tariff rollbacks.
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Trump's top environmental regulator, who has overseen aggressive rollbacks of rules on greenhouse gases, air pollution, water pollution, chemicals and more, also tied religion into his ongoing criticisms of left-wing environmentalists.
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In addition, Democratic attorneys general from New York, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Oregon and Vermont have threatened in recent days to sue the Trump administration to try to block some of the regulatory rollbacks.
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Americans already are living with results of slowdowns and rollbacks in environmental regulation, said Elizabeth Southerland, who resigned last year as director of science and technology of the EPA's Office of Water.
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And unlike other environmental rollbacks at the EPA that have been delayed, bogged down in bureaucratic muck, or stalled by lawsuits, the ACE rule, now that it has been finalized, might stick.
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House Democrats said this week that they'll use their new power in Congress to investigate whether EPA officials broke rules by pushing regulatory rollbacks that benefited their former clients, after reporting by Politico.
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Financials jumped on the back of the 2016 election as investors bet that potential regulation rollbacks and a more pro-business approach from the Trump administration would give a boost to the space.
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Rising gasoline prices could create a political headache for Trump ahead of the November elections by offsetting Republican claims that his tax cuts and rollbacks of federal regulations have helped boost the economy.
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Nonetheless, even if they fail to pass judicial muster, these proposed rollbacks are symptomatic of the shamefully destructive approach to environmental and public health policy that has thus far characterized the Trump administration.
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The session was widely seen as being dictated by Dan Patrick, but many of the signature items that he had supported—school vouchers, property-tax rollbacks, and the bathroom bill—failed to pass.
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Markey told reporters that, once the rollbacks proposed Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation are made final, Democrats could propose overturning them through the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
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And Trump's various rollbacks of environmental health and safety have had little to no effect on expanding industry -- but are expected to pollute air and water, especially in communities where Trump voters live.
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His prepared testimony before the panel, released Monday, reflects the moderate stance Powell, a Republican who's favored loose monetary policy and slight rollbacks to financial rules, is expected to bring to the Fed.
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Markey told reporters that, once the rollbacks proposed Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation are made final, Democrats could propose overturning them through the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
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The 96 lawmakers specifically pointed to a number of recent Environmental Protection Agency rollbacks that include a weakening of the national vehicle emissions standards and rules for methane leak monitoring from power plants.
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Reuters reported, citing trade experts and people close to U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, the completion of a partial trade deal could be pushed into 2020 as China seeks more extensive tariff rollbacks.
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The most significant benefits could well come in the form of corporate tax cuts (and, inevitably, tax loopholes for specific industries) along with regulatory rollbacks, which Mr. Trump has promised, without supplying details.
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However, science, data, statutory requirements, Supreme Court precedents, existing regulations, state progress and the huge clean energy industrial sector will constrain regulatory rollbacks or the wholesale loss of progress to slow climate change.
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Republicans are banking on a robust economy that they can attribute to their tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks to overcome the deep public disapproval of Mr. Trump exhibited in multiple elections last year.
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Mr. Wheeler's signature officially sets in motion one of the Trump Administration's most significant rollbacks yet of former President Barack Obama's climate change legacy, alongside an earlier decision to let automobiles pollute more.
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Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, has said that he hopes to include Chinese commitments to halt fentanyl exports in a final trade agreement — tariff rollbacks in exchange for a fentanyl crackdown.
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His prepared testimony before the panel, released Monday, reflects the moderate stance Powell, a Republican who's favored loose monetary policy and slight rollbacks to financial rules, is expected to bring to the Fed.
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The group's proposed $40 per ton price on carbon dioxide—which enjoys significant and well-publicized support from academic economists—would rise gradually over time and be enacted in exchange for regulatory rollbacks.
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TL;DR: Walmart is offering rollbacks on tons of toys ahead of the holidays — save up to 20% on top toys for 2019 like Paw Patrol sets, Marvel gear, and the Barbie DreamCamper.
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The report on climate risk comes shortly after a slew of extreme weather events across the world, as well as a series of environmental regulation rollbacks in the U.S. by the Trump administration.
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The Trump administration has already enacted three rounds of cuts and rollbacks on nutrition programs, and this is a continuation of a targeted strategy whose impact is to shame families on public benefits.
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In a March 2018 letter, IPAA and other groups specifically thanked Bernhardt for Interior's regulation rollbacks and said they looked forward to working with the agency on revising sage grouse land-use policies.
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Pair these promotional rollbacks with an anti-enrollment campaign funded in part by tax dollars intended to support enrollment efforts, and it's really no wonder that enrollment is expected to drop this year.
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Bruce WestermanBruce Eugene WestermanOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks The Hill's Morning Report - An incredibly busy week; Iowa caucuses today MORE (R-Ark.) that will be unveiled this week would commit the U.S. to planting some 21625 billion trees each year over the next 2900 years, an increase of about 220006 million trees per year.
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As the low-end buyer in the sector, KB Home has the potential to be a strong stock next year in the face of regulation rollbacks from the Trump administration, trader David Seaburg said.
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Pramila Jayapal teamed up to create a "Rigged Justice" report detailing many specific instances of Trump-era rollbacks of white-collar criminal enforcement, building on what was already inadequate enforcement in the Obama era.
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The Trump administration's rollbacks of crucial climate change policies, from the intended pullout from the Paris Agreement to the scuttled Clean Power Plan, have earned most of the media attention and scorn from environmentalists.
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Policy-wise, she could speak up against the administration's rollbacks to Title IX campus sexual assault guidelines and the huge cuts to Violence Against Women Act programs that help vulnerable communities, just for starters.
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The retail giant is offering up to 50 percent off featured rollbacks (yes, there are deals on TVs, too!), so it'll be your one-stop shop for the latest and greatest in low prices.
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The big picture, via Axios' Amy Harder: This is one of the most controversial regulatory rollbacks pursued by the Trump administration, due to the high-profile disaster that is still America's worst oil spill.
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Judge Aiken is being asked to order the entire federal government to come up with a plan to phase out fossil fuel use; the Pennsylvania case asks for an order ending the regulatory rollbacks.
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At least ten of Pruitt's intended regulatory rollbacks, in fact, are on hold due to lawsuits, according to the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, a group run out of New York University Law School.
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"I would expect to see a lot of interest in doing things to improve affordability of coverage and actions to protect people with pre-existing conditions from potential Affordable Care Act rollbacks," Corlette said.
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Weeks after Trump's inauguration, the New York Times' reported, CEO Robert Murray "presented Mr. Trump with a wish list of environmental rollbacks," and since then the majority of those 16 requests have been fulfilled.
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Stocks dipped temporarily during Friday's session after Trump said that he has not agreed to the tariff rollbacks sought by China, so any insight into what type of deal he anticipates could be important.
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Why it matters: The Risk Management Plan rule is a prime example of the Trump administration's environmental agenda: implementing regulatory rollbacks long sought by industry and the GOP in an attempt to reduce costs.
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"I do believe there would be a more nuanced approach to rollbacks, if there is such a thing, compared to Mr. Pruitt's tenure," said John Walke, clean air director at Natural Resources Defense Council.
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They have had a number of successes in the energy and environmental policy space, with lawsuits seeking to stop rollbacks or delays of policies on methane emissions, energy efficiency, vehicle fuel efficiency and more.
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It also serves as a reminder that, for all the increase in transgender visibility, life on the ground for many transgender people hasn't necessarily changed much — particularly in a time of civil rights rollbacks.
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Once the proposed rollbacks of vehicle and power plant rules are finalized, environmental groups and states like California plan to sue, including on the process that the administration used to tally costs and benefits.
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WASHINGTON — After a year of delighting conservatives with tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks, President Trump is finally following through on the type of trade crackdowns that terrify Republican leaders in Congress and many economists.
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Four GOP senators — Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cory Gardner of Colorado, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have written to McConnell to express concern about sharp rollbacks to Medicaid.
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In short, despite the fact that Trump's rollbacks are more promises than realities today, the US government can affect energy markets, and give fossil fuels a small measure of respite, merely with its promises.
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The findings from the National Climate Assessment, issued by 13 federal agencies, come as the new House Democratic majority prepares to conduct oversight next year into Mr. Trump's rollbacks of federal climate change policies.
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Oil and gas industry executives have celebrated these and other rollbacks as well as the surge in federal leasing, after years of complaining that Obama administration policies discouraged them from drilling on public lands.
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Many states, including New York and California, have tried to create a bulwark against the dismantling of federal rules to combat climate change, and have joined together to challenge President Trump's rollbacks in court.
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The Trump administration is expected to announce completion as soon as today of one of its most momentous environmental rollbacks, removing federal protections for millions of miles of the country's streams, arroyos and wetlands.
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The administration has used a mix of tax cuts, spending increases and regulatory rollbacks in an effort to goose the economy out of what Kudlow characterized as a "growth recession" after the financial crisis.
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Lobbying groups pushing for rollbacks of Dodd-Frank rules called the Senate deal a good first step, but said they'd prefer a SIFI threshold based on a bank's risk and lending profile, not size.
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The article cited experts who claimed that policy rollbacks by the Trump administration "would make it impossible for the United States to meet Mr. Obama's commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement" on climate change.
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DEMS COME OUT SWINGING AT EPA CHIEF'S HEARING: Democratic senators wasted no time Tuesday hounding the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over his regulatory rollbacks and potential ulterior motives at the agency.
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Pruitt, who resigned Thursday after months of ethics scandals, announced many of the policy changes quickly, and former EPA officials and environmental group predict that his proposed rollbacks will be vulnerable to court challenges.
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The falsehoods Mr. Trump issued in his first days in office, his contemptuous treatment of the press and the rollbacks of important policies are sure to fuel even stronger resistance in the United States.
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With multiple environmental cases heading to the Supreme Court next term — and the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks tied up in lower courts — Kavanaugh could guide the U.S. into a more conservative era of regulation.
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Business interests like oil and coal, eager to see reduced regulation, were quick to hail Wheeler's confirmation while Democrats and conservation groups are worried that environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration are going too far.
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Staley said he did not foresee big rollbacks on banking regulation, following speculation that President-elect Trump could reverse parts of the Dodd-Frank legislation governing the split of banks' commercial and investment banking activities.
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Rising U.S. gasoline prices could create a political headache for Trump before November congressional elections by offsetting Republican claims that his tax cuts and rollbacks of federal regulations have helped to boost the U.S. economy.
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Trump says his tax cuts and regulation rollbacks are lifting business sentiment, and in an upbeat address to Congress on Tuesday, he said Americans "are finally seeing rising wages" after "years and years" of stagnation.
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Mandy Gunasekara, who has been instrumental in crafting President Trump's regulatory rollbacks on a range of air pollution standards, is leaving the Environmental Protection Agency to start a new political advocacy group defending those policies.
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At their annual retreat in Indian Wells, California, the Kochs and their guests donned their robes, sacrificed a calf, and prayed for regulatory rollbacks that would allow them to dump toxic waste directly into reservoirs.
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"In the last 10 months we have followed through on one promise after another," he said, touting recent stock market gains, regulatory rollbacks and the success of a military campaign against ISIS among his accomplishments.
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President Obama, in a recent speech on the economy, reiterated the White House's stance against broad rollbacks of the financial reform law, underscoring the uphill battle the legislation would face in the current political environment.
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The rollbacks from the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) focus on safety requirements for the period when an offshore platform is producing oil and natural gas, instead of the drilling process.
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As documented in the recent report, Warning Signs, rollbacks in voting rights in several swing states once covered by VRA preclearance could determine the outcome of 84 Electoral College votes and control of the Senate.
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This isn't the first time the Trump administration has worked to soften environmental regulations and commitments: The president also catalyzed rollbacks of the US Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Act.
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President Trump's tax cut bill, his repeal of the individual health insurance mandate, withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and rollbacks of regulations have extended Republican priorities or undone policies enacted under President Barack Obama.
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To produce that average growth rate for the next decade, White House forecasters say, the American economy would need additional rollbacks in labor regulations, a $250 trillion infrastructure plan and another round of tax cuts.
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"His administration's failure to take action on climate change and its continuous rollbacks of environmental protections have left communities vulnerable to storms increasing in intensity and frequency like Hurricane Dorian," O'Rourke said in the statement.
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The White House proposal earned swift condemnation from some members of Congress, who argued it was another example to add to a long list of Trump-era rollbacks that will be heavily challenged in court.
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Like the Republican's recent tax reform plan, Trump would reward the wealthiest people and corporations with regulatory rollbacks and profits from construction projects that cause irreparable harm on public health and the environment for decades.
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People close to the White House and trade experts have said the deal could be pushed back until next year as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks and Washington ramps up its own demands.
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Washington (CNN)While Americans were buying and opening their Christmas presents, the Trump administration's environmental regulators were wrapping up their work on some controversial issues, including some proposed rollbacks of Bush and Obama-era regulations.
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State attorneys general have banded together to fight some of the rollbacks, including the President's arbitrary goal of repealing two regulations for every new one and, most recently, his effort to roll back school nutrition standards.
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Where Obamacare made contraceptives a required preventative health service and allowed millions of women to obtain free birth control, these rollbacks mean based on religious or moral beliefs, an employer can opt out of this benefit.
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"I do believe there would be a more nuanced approach to rollbacks, if there is such a thing, compared to Mr. Pruitt's tenure," John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Axios.
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The Trump administration has used a variety of excuses to legitimize its record-setting rollbacks on environmental protections: calling global warming a hoax, or arguing that the economic consequences of increased regulation would outweigh their benefit.
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"In the face of dangerous rollbacks of clean air protections from the Trump Administration, Governor McAuliffe's directive is one more example of state leaders moving forward," said Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters.
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The Senate has confirmed former coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, despite concerns by Democrats and one Republican about regulatory rollbacks he's made in eight months as the agency's acting chief.
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This is likely to play out in terms of resistance not just to Trump himself but to the radical programs and rollbacks the Republicans are going to be implementing—on the environment, wages, unions, immigration, education.
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In the United States, Stocks opened higher on Tuesday, following records hit in the previous session, as investors grew more bullish on a potential U.S.-China trade deal as both sides consider more rollbacks in tariffs.
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A coalition of 29 state attorneys general are using the text of the Trump administration's National Climate Assessment to back their claims that two recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rollbacks are out of step with reality.
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Trump's 2020 budget proposal projected 3 percent growth through 85033, and the top White House economist said Tuesday that tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks enacted by the president would power the economy for years to come.
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Most notably, four Republican senators – Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – expressed concern about the impact of the Medicaid rollbacks in their states.
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Leading House Democrats, weeks away from taking over the majority in the lower chamber, are demanding records and information from the Trump administration's rollbacks of numerous climate change policies at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Rep.
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Under Pai, however, the FCC appears poised to carry out the most high-profile of regulatory rollbacks—one that will essentially turn the future of the internet over to a slew of profit-thirsty multinational conglomerates.
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Republicans, though, are irritated that the Fed hasn't expanded the scope of its regulatory rollbacks to foreign banks operating in the U.S. or eased rules for some banks with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
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On Wednesday of this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 100 points on report that the completion of a limited trade deal won't happen this year as China insists on more extensive tariff rollbacks.
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The New York Times reported this month that several of the independent companies seeking the regulatory rollbacks had been cited for workplace safety violations in recent years at a rate much higher than the industry average.
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"The Republicans have often been faced with a dilemma that their approach in domestic policy is to support rollbacks of social programs," said Dave Hopkins, a political scientist at Boston College, in an interview last month.
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In a letter signed by 17 companies including Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volvo, the world's largest automakers told President Trump that his rollbacks of the standards threaten to hurt their profitability and produce "untenable" instability.
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She said that by loosening Rome's grip on the language of prayers, Francis had restored the intention of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and erased some of the rollbacks of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.
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WASHINGTON — Before resigning as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency this year, Scott Pruitt delighted President Trump with his zeal for proclaiming sweeping regulatory rollbacks, even though he left behind a trail of courtroom setbacks.
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Coal power has been on a long-term decline in the US for decades — a trend that has continued under President Trump, despite his efforts to prop it up with bailouts and rollbacks of environmental regulations.
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The opposition to one of President Trump's most consequential regulatory rollbacks — a plan to weaken pollution standards for automobiles nationwide — widened on Tuesday when 24 governors, including three Republicans, urged the president to abandon his plan.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that U.S. negotiators had asked Chinese officials to commit to some up front agricultural purchases, while Beijing wants those purchases to be proportional to rollbacks of existing U.S. tariffs.
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One manufacturing representative said that White House officials, including Chris Liddell, the deputy chief of staff, made it known at the meeting that Mr. Trump was unhappy that automakers had not rallied around the proposed rollbacks.
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He noted that the success of equity market appears to be tied to a worldwide policy of quantitative easing by major central banks, making him anxious for future balance sheet rollbacks and the market next year.
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The softness last quarter also provides crucial ammunition for the Trump administration's arguments that big tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks are necessary for the economy to grow the way it did in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Recent rollbacks of federal environmental policies on coal mining and electricity production and the reversal of reforms to the federal coal-leasing program proved largely ineffective in improving the balance sheets of coal producers in 2017.
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He said federal rollbacks were increasing the attractiveness of fossil fuel investments; U.S. withdrawal from the agreement had created moral and political cover for other nations to follow suit; and goodwill at international negotiations was being damaged.
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But among the shake-ups, rollbacks, and missed opportunities, there's been quite a bit of positive news within the fashion industry that's indication that things have changed — not because of a passing trend, but because we've evolved.
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Instead of just tweeting about #MeToo and #TimesUp, she could have addressed the administration's rollbacks to Title IX campus sexual assault guidelines and the huge cuts to Violence Against Women Act programs that help vulnerable communities. 2.
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But his best case scenario — if Rick Perry succeeds in bailing out coal plants, if Pruitt's regulatory rollbacks pass legal muster, if China's mounting efforts to ditch coal fail — is that US coal's decline is temporarily arrested.
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But for activists, DeVos's nomination proved the perfect issue to personalize the impact Trump would have on America — even for white, upper-middle-class people who are unlikely to suffer from deportations or rollbacks of voting rights.
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Over at Politico, Alex Guillén has a nice story on "EPA originalism," the alleged principle that Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is using to justify massive budget cuts and regulatory rollbacks at the agency.
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These safety rollbacks are being introduced just as the administration is preparing to release a new five-year draft oil-leasing plan for federal waters to reflect Trump's April 28 executive order to significantly expand offshore drilling.
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Fed vice chairman nominee Richard Clarida and Fed governor nominee Michelle Bowman told the Senate Banking Committee that they wouldn't yield to pressure from Trump to keep rates low and would speak out against excessive regulatory rollbacks.
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After optimism on Thursday that Washington and Beijing have agreed to phased reductions in tariffs as part of an interim trade deal, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has not agreed to any such rollbacks.
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Hopes of trade progress rose on Thursday when China's Commerce Ministry said Beijing and Washington had agreed to lift existing tariffs on one another's goods, but Trump on Friday said he had not agreed to any rollbacks.
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As The Washington Post's reporting has shown, he routinely books $3,000 to $4,000 first-class flights to places like New York, South Carolina, and Alabama for the purposes of doing local media hits and promoting regulatory rollbacks.
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Fed vice chairman nominee Richard Clarida and Fed governor nominee Michelle Bowman told the Senate Banking Committee that they wouldn't yield to pressure from Trump to keep rates low and would speak out against excessive regulatory rollbacks.
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Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the Trump administration might avoid big-splash regulatory rollbacks this year and instead would make it harder for federal agencies to block business expansion.
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The state's target is one of President Trump's most consequential environmental rollbacks to date, a proposal unveiled last week to let cars pollute more while stripping California of its right to set its own air-quality rules.
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The rollbacks of Obama administration policies have included severely limiting travel visas and remittances and drastically cutting commercial and charter flights to the island, all of which is devastating the tourist-dependent Cuban economy, specifically Cuban entrepreneurs.
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The Trump administration has been moving on a number of environmental rollbacks this month, including an overhaul of the National Environmental Policy Act, which would make it easier to approve massive infrastructure projects without lengthy environmental reviews.
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The tariff rollbacks had been widely expected and were a gesture in response to the United States halving its September round of tariffs in the "phase one" trade deal, according Tommy Wu, an economist with Oxford Economics.
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The administration has attempted to justify all of these rollbacks with so-called "data" that stands in stark contrast to the scientific, technical and specialized knowledge that was used to develop these safeguards in the first place.
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An official of one of the largest grassroots anti-corruption organizations in the country on Tuesday said that the U.S. is becoming less Democratic, pointing to rollbacks of the Civil Rights Act and rise of voter suppression.
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Even so, Democratic state attorneys general, environmental groups and others have already filed dozens of lawsuits to try to stop or reverse the Trump administration rollbacks, meaning that the ultimate outcome may be decided in federal courts.
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When one side is in power, interest groups on the other side often see more financial support — which is why environmental groups are on the rise during one of the most aggressive regulatory rollbacks in American history.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands protested in Madrid on Saturday against the suspension of curbs on polluting cars by the new conservative city hall, raising fears that environmental rollbacks seen in the United States may be spreading to Europe.
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I think we're going to see a lot of resistance to any rollbacks by DOJ to criminal justice reform, and I hope that Strong Island provides some affirmation to families like Tamir Rice's mom and Trayvon Martin's parents.
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Flake, who has generally toed the party line with Trump and the Republicans on Senate votes, credited Trump for his appointment of Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch and his regulatory rollbacks, as well as his national security team.
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"Trump is responsible for the most serious attacks on clean air by any president ever, and his tweets will do nothing to prevent kids from getting sick from his big polluter handouts and clean air rollbacks," he said.
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Trump and the Republican-led Congress have managed to fast-track these rollbacks with something called the Congressional Review Act, which requires a simple majority in both the House and Senate to pass a joint resolution of disproval.
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More broadly, the Trump administration has used a variety of excuses to legitimize its record-setting rollbacks on environmental protections, calling global warming a hoax, or arguing that the economic consequences of increased regulation would outweigh their benefit.
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But, with increasing frequency, these rollbacks are going further than business wants, leaving regulated businesses vulnerable to social disapprobation and abrupt future policy shifts while creating an environment of deep regulatory uncertainty that makes long-term planning difficult.
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Across those pages, whose followers totaled in the tens of thousands, partisan messages against Trump's tax cuts and rollbacks of federal environment protections were interspersed with nonpolitical posts about being a working parent or support for local causes.
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Those rollbacks have benefited numerous parties, among them some of Mr. Bernhardt's former lobbying and legal clients, including oil companies and Halliburton Energy Services, the oil and gas extraction firm once led by former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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But those debts appear to have done little to scale back the spending habits of Mr. Murray, a prominent supporter of President Trump who helped engineer dozens of climate change and environmental rollbacks over the past three years.
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Policy agenda moving forward Trump has not identified a replacement for Pruitt should he decide to fire him, multiple senior officials said, and he remains enthusiastic about the progress his EPA has made toward deregulation and environmental rollbacks.
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A spokesperson for Bernhardt said in a statement that he has fully complied with his recusal agreements, and some advocates for the energy industry argue that such regulatory rollbacks are part of what Trump was elected to do.
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"With crackdowns and rollbacks to LGBTQ equality happening around the globe, it's heartening to see this showing of pride from one of the most remote places on the planet," Zeke Stokes, a vice president at GLAAD, told Mic.
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John Barrasso (R-WY) praised Pruitt for his work to end the "regulatory rampage" at the EPA under the Obama administration while Democrats questioned Pruitt's budget cuts for the agency, slowwalking rules, regulatory rollbacks, and his international trips.
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"As we look at stopping the rollbacks of the last 50 years of progress that are happening at the state, local, and federal level, we need more progressive voices in legislative bodies, and in executive chambers," Peeler-Allen says.
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In early 2019 a federal court ruled again in favor of the Sierra Club saying the EPA must release 20,000 pages of emails, as well as calendars, of EPA officials involved in rollbacks of public health and environmental standards.
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"It's not enough to just defend against any rollbacks, we have to accelerate the progress right now if we're going to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement," said Anna Aurilio, director of Environment America's Washington, D.C., office.
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The new Congress should hold hearings to probe the deeply flawed scientific arguments underlying some of the Trump administration's more egregious proposed regulatory rollbacks, such as those to the mercury emissions standards and the motor vehicle fuel economy standards.
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Trump and other Republicans have long been concerned that cutting carbon emissions would lead to significant rollbacks on fossil fuel production like coal and gas at a time when the U.S. has just become the world's top oil producer.
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He is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, and his administration has announced a staggering number of rollbacks of regulations on carbon emissions, fuel efficiency, clean air, pesticides, wilderness protection, oil and gas drilling, and much more.
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McHenry also asked the CFPB for a broader update on its efforts to revise mortgage disclosure and data collection rules, and the SEC for information on several rollbacks intended to boost initial public offerings and ease other regulatory hassles.
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Why it matters: The drivers compelling companies to invest in lower-carbon technologies, such as falling renewable-energy prices and investor pressure, are moving forward regardless of President Trump's regulatory rollbacks and dismissal of climate change as an issue.
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That law would dilute the rules that were to come into effect this week by allowing businesses that do heavy delivery and online business—like pizza delivery chains—to only post nutrition information on their websites, among other rollbacks.
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"Many of these money managers and institutions, concerned about racial and gender discrimination, gun violence, and the federal government's rollbacks of environmental protections, are using portfolio selection and shareowner engagement to address these important issues," the report's authors write.
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After he declined, he disclosed that he would serve as an outside adviser to the administration on education policy — a role in which, Mr. Falwell indicated, he would call for rollbacks of regulations governing accreditation, recruitment and student borrowing.
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Judicial orders announcing the rollbacks have upended the maxim of American law that "justice delayed is justice denied," as judges across the country determine that protecting the nation's health outweighs the public's interest in speedy trials and efficient rulings.
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These tariff rollbacks had been widely expected and were a gesture in response to the United States cutting its September round of tariffs by half in the "phase one" trade deal, according Tommy Wu, an economist with Oxford Economics.
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They fear that the aggressive rollbacks will spark a legal battle between California and the federal government that could upend their business by splitting the United States into two car markets, one with stricter emissions standards than the other.
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The National Association of Manufacturers have attributed continued growth to regulatory rollbacks and tax cuts enacted last year, and their quarterly survey shows that 73.2% of their members report attracting a qualified workforce to be their top business challenge.
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"The fact that they're backing someone who is an alleged sexual harasser and is rolling back women's rights and all sorts of other rollbacks on the progress that we've made on social issues is not a surprise," Pao said.
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The Lifeline program, a subsidy to provide low-income individuals with affordable communications access, such as cell service, is facing major rollbacks, including a federal spending cap on the program and limits on which providers can offer the service.
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They fear that the aggressive rollbacks will spark a legal battle between California and the federal government that could upend their business by splitting the United States into two car markets, one with stricter emissions standards than the other.
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WASHINGTON — Canada has signaled a willingness to buck one of President Trump's most significant environmental rollbacks — a major weakening of auto pollution standards — by signing a clean-car deal with California, the state leading the fight against the rollback.
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The Environmental Protection Agency, whose budget Trump proposed slashing by 31% for fiscal year 2020, has been particularly active, attempting to ease rules for coal plants, although courts have stood in the way of some of its proposed regulatory rollbacks.
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In a Thursday interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House expects a combination of tax reform and regulatory rollbacks to unleash substantially higher economic growth, filling government coffers and offsetting the cost of lower taxes.
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President Donald Trump made a pledge in his 2017 State of the Union address to "promote clean air and water," but his administration has reversed or proposed rollbacks to major air pollution protections, emissions standards and drilling and extraction regulations.
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The changes came less than 24 hours before thousands of protesters were set to march in Washington and around the country in support of political action to push back against the Trump administration's rollbacks of former president Barack Obama's climate policies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department's rollbacks of safety measures put in place by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the fatal 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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The groups, including Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Center, said the agency failed to weigh how the rollbacks could harm offshore safety and the environment, especially as it considers opening up the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts to drilling.
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Mark Tepper, founder of Strategic Wealth Partners, notes that while a flattening yield curve and historically low interest rates are a headwind for financials, the beginning of bank regulation rollbacks could spark even more M&A activity in the space.
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he has not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China, sparking fresh doubts about when the world's two largest economies may end a 16-month trade war that has slowed global growth.
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Banks in particular surged nearly 30 percent after the election but have traded slightly lower since early March, when investors began to fear that pro-growth policies such as tax reform, regulation rollbacks and infrastructure spending would stall in Congress.
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H.R. McMaster authorized the rollbacks in an effort to streamline the National Security Council and eliminated two positions, according to the report — the deputy assistant position supervising the regional desks of the National Security Council and one overseeing transnational matters.
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But that bill would require the support of the Democratic Party, and could give it an ability to demand something in return — such as rollbacks of limitations on state and local tax deductions, which primarily hurt taxpayers in liberal states.
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"These rollbacks need and deserve the input of our public health community, but right now, they are rightfully focused on responding to the coronavirus," said Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Some of those rollbacks have come at the direct request of Robert E. Murray, the chief executive of Murray Energy, one of the nation's largest coal producers, who is a longtime Trump supporter and donated $300,000 to the president's inauguration.
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It's one of the most consequential environmental rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration: an overhaul of fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks that would significantly weaken one of former President Barack Obama's signature policies to combat global warming.
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Critics say the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) water policy unveiled Thursday is one of the biggest rollbacks to water policy in decades, but it's tough to know the extent of its impact because of challenges that come with mapping America's waterways.
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Whether it's immigration rhetoric and policies that curb fresh ideas and new faces, healthcare rollbacks that leave entrepreneurs and freelancers in the cold, or policies that hamstring the newest additions to the workforce, there's a lot to be concerned about.
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" Any viable deal with the North Koreans, they suggested, "would require explicit acceptance of their nuclear state status and significant rollbacks to the U.S. conventional military presence in the Northeast Asian theater, both of which are nonstarters for the United States.
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The Trump administration has already moved forward with numerous other efficiency rollbacks, including weakening energy standards for light bulbs, effectively freezing standards for gas-powered residential furnaces and making it tougher for the federal government to set new efficiency rules.
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But some of those same Republicans have grown frustrated during Governor Brownback's six-year tenure with perpetual budget shortfalls, cuts to road projects, rollbacks to social services and, especially resonant here in Overland Park, perceived budget threats to public schools.
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Completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, trade experts and people close to the White House said, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks while Washington counters with heightened demands of its own.
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Opinion by: Krystal Ball An official of one of the largest grassroots anti-corruption organizations in the country on Tuesday said that the U.S. is becoming less Democratic, pointing to rollbacks of the Civil Rights Act and rise of voter suppression.
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Opinion by: Saagar Enjeti An official of one of the largest grassroots anti-corruption organizations in the country on Tuesday said that the U.S. is becoming less Democratic, pointing to rollbacks of the Civil Rights Act and rise of voter suppression.
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While Mr. Zinke had been the face of rollbacks of public-land protections, Mr. Bernhardt, as deputy chief of the department, quietly developed the plans to open millions of acres of public land and water to oil, gas and coal companies.
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Mr. Murphy previously oversaw a team that examined regulatory rollbacks, including those at the Environmental Protection Agency, and was an editor on our Pulitzer-prize winning coverage of both Apple's manufacturing practices and corruption at high levels of the Chinese government.
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CNBC | SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey Although tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks this year fueled small-business optimism to hit its highest level in decades, the latest CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, released Monday, reveals that small-business confidence is starting to cool.
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You know, I mean, but I would say that absolutely— BECKY QUICK: But what about the specifics of what have been proposed in terms of potential border adjustment taxes, in terms of immigration policies, in terms of regulation rollbacks, all of these things?
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You know, I mean, but I would say that absolutely— Quick: But what about the specifics of what have been proposed in terms of potential border adjustment taxes, in terms of immigration policies, in terms of regulation rollbacks, all of these things?
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In 2017, the Trump administration made at least 23 major rollbacks to environmental protections and backed out of the Paris climate agreement— a pact made with literally every country on earth to lower emission rates in an effort to fight climate change.
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Virtually the whole world is beating up on the administration of President Donald Trump for daring to predict that low marginal tax rates, regulatory rollbacks, and the repeal of Obamacare will generate 23 percent to 24 percent economic growth in the years ahead.
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An in-depth look by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service indicated that not only did the rollbacks in business and personal rates have little macro impact, but they also delivered the most benefits to corporations and the rich, with little boost to wages.
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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department's rollbacks of safety measures put in place by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the fatal 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Given this and department officials' outrageous and baseless endorsement of this rape myth, it is clear to me that the real motivation behind these rollbacks is not a concern for fair process, but rather age-old misogyny that argues women always lie.
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"Our base case is for the current tariff truce extension to yield only a partial resolution, including select U.S. tariff rollbacks in exchange for some Chinese concessions on imports, market access and intellectual property," strategists at UBS wrote in a note to clients.
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STATES CITE CLIMATE REPORT IN EPA CHALLENGE: A coalition of 22019 state attorneys general are using the text of the Trump administration's National Climate Assessment to back their claims that two recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rollbacks are out of step with reality.
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And these rollbacks would hit the wallets of working Americans — costing drivers about $460 billion — $3,300 per new vehicle — at the pump in the coming years, siphoning that money from the pockets of Americans and transferring it into the oil industry's coffers instead.
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While the bill's backers have highlighted a number of fig leaf protections—most notably the ability to temporarily freeze one's credit for up to a year—these are overshadowed by the bill's regulatory rollbacks, which disproportionately benefit banks and put consumers at risk.
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"When it comes to rollbacks, they have to justify them and the law is not on their side because most of the laws on clean air, clean water and endangered species are meant to further the protection of the environment," he said.
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Oh boy, it's been a busy week so let's just dive right in with the Trump administration's long-awaited update to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), new lawsuits over Obama rule rollbacks, and some big changes at the Interior Department's ethics office.
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" The Trump administration's rollbacks have been opposed by automakers, who told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) they preferred standards that "continue improving the fuel economy of gasoline powered vehicles at historic rates and policies that support American leadership in zero emissions vehicles.
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Opponents blasted the administration's decision to target unobligated funds within the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — which make up nearly half of the $22019 billion in rollbacks — alleging the cuts could lead to a loss of coverage if enrollment is higher than expected.
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"This new framing of energy policy around the idea of dominance is a thinly-veiled attempt to justify unfettered development of fossil fuels and rollbacks of environmental protections," said David Konisky, associate professor at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
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This news comes amid massive civil rights rollbacks by the Trump administration, and not long after a post-racial narrative that took hold during the Obama era: By electing a black president, the idea goes, America had at least partially moved past race.
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According to Business Insider, while HYP3R publicly supported the decision, it also created tools meant to continue scraping that data in ways that took advantage of Instagram's sloppy implementation of the API rollbacks and sure look like violations of its terms of service.
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In an administration that has been defined by its science denial and regulatory rollbacks, the assessments that haven't led to enforceable protections — or have been kept from the public entirely — are in one sense just another example of a government captured by industry.
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So summarizing the private insurance side of this, in your view: The AHCA repeals some of the right Obamacare regulations to bring premiums down, it provides enough funding to address any rollbacks of Obamacare's protections, but the financial assistance piece still needs work.
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The rollbacks reflect what experts on both sides of Washington's political divide describe as the biggest deregulatory push by the U.S. government in a generation under Trump, who said during his presidential campaign that 70 percent of federal agency regulations could be eliminated.
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While pushing the various rollbacks, Mr. Wehrum has at times continued to interact with former clients, despite an ethics rule that prohibits former industry lawyers and lobbyists from meeting with former clients in private settings to discuss government-related matters for two years.
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More from Alexandra Stevenson, Kate Kelly and Keith Bradsher of the NYT: Even as they win tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks from the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, they appear to be able to do little to stop the trade war.
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By the same token, his reelection campaign claims "we have the cleanest air on record" when, in fact, air quality has been declining under Trump, and his administration is working on a bunch of regulatory rollbacks that will make air pollution even worse.
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Through regulatory rollbacks, tax cuts and the success of the global economy, the president who ran as a populist has benefited many of the chief executives gathered at the event, even those who have taken public positions against some of his policies.
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Completion of a phase one trade deal could slide into next year, trade experts and people close to the White House told Reuters previously, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks and the U.S. administration counters with heightened demands of its own.
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Trade experts and people close to the White House said completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with demands of its own.
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Rao -- who serves as Trump's "czar" overseeing regulatory rollbacks -- faced fierce questioning not just for her work in the Trump administration but for commentary she wrote decades ago as a Yale University student suggesting women should change their behavior to avoid date rape.
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That's very small compared to the size of the US economy, and the rollbacks have been justified in part by a version of cost-benefit analysis that doesn't reflect less tangible effects of federal rules, such as decreased pollution and improved public health.
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A Trump White House will have few checks on its power given that Republicans hold both houses of Congress, meaning that there could be significant rollbacks of EPA regulations and climate-related executive orders that could have ramifications beyond a single presidential term.
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Completion of an initial trade deal could slide into next year, Reuters reported, citing trade experts and people close to the White House, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with heightened demands of its own.
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Trade experts and people close to the White House said completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with heightened demands of its own.
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But experts say the scale of the rollbacks in the Trump era still does not exceed extensive cuts in federal rules during the Carter and Reagan administrations, when rules governing airline, truck and rail transportation were wiped off the books, among other changes.
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The EPA's new acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, said Wednesday n a his first address to EPA staffers that he is "proud" of his work as a coal lobbyist — work which included selling the industry's wishlist of regulatory rollbacks to the Trump administration.
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"The highly adverse rollbacks of U.S. climate policies by the Trump Administration, if fully implemented and not compensated by other actors, are projected to flatten US emissions instead of continuing on a downward trend," said Niklas Hohne, of NewClimate Institute, in a press release.
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As important as they are, defense spending increases, regulation rollbacks and tax reform are not a good enough trade for Trump's alignment with Russia, attacks on our free press and other branches of government, and conflicts of interest associated with his foreign business interests.
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Even as Wheeler has promised to move forward with the regulatory rollbacks that Pruitt began and to follow through on President Trump's promises to make the EPA smaller and more industry-friendly, he vowed Wednesday to be more transparent about his actions than his predecessor.
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The people chosen by a President Biden or Warren to run the regulatory agencies would push in the same centre-left direction: reversing rollbacks of environmental protections under this administration, creating more expansive definitions of civil rights and pushing anti-trust regulators to be bolder.
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"The highly adverse rollbacks of US climate policies by the Trump Administration, if fully implemented and not compensated by other actors, are projected to flatten US emissions instead of continuing on a downward trend," Niklas Höhne, of NewClimate Institute, said in a press release.
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"The Clean Air Council case is taking the legal theories pioneered in Juliana and applying them to a narrow set of facts related to specific rollbacks of the Trump administration," said Meg Ward, a spokeswoman for Our Children's Trust, a group leading the Juliana suit.
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There are also growing doubts on the size and scope of fiscal stimulus the Trump administration may inject into the U.S. economy with campaign promises on tax reform, financial regulation rollbacks and infrastructure spending either still on the drawing board or facing hurdles in Congress.
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O'Rourke, taking questions from the press while at the She the People forum in Texas, began his response on the issue by pointing to low voter participation rates in his state and broader rollbacks of voting rights Democrats have railed against around the country.
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She announced to the State Legislature that she was concerned about possible rollbacks of the Medicaid expansion and said in no uncertain terms that she would not support a repeal bill that defunded Planned Parenthood, which Alaskans also depend on for community health care.
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If you look at the rollbacks in the environmental protection arena, walking away from the Climate Accord that we struck with nearly 200 countries from across the world who all agree climate change is a problem and now we're suddenly rolling all of that back.
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"The most important immediate change is that the lands will once again be available for mining prospectors to get out on federal public lands and stake mining claims," said Heidi McIntosh, an attorney with Earthjustice, which opposes the rollbacks and is suing to reverse them.
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Over his first nine months, Trump has used an aggressive series of regulatory rollbacks, executive orders and changes in enforcement guidelines to rewrite the rules for industries from energy to airlines, and on issues from campus sexual assault to anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.
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In the weeks after Mr. Trump's inauguration, Murray's chief executive officer, Robert E. Murray, wrote confidential memos to Vice President Mike Pence and the energy secretary, Rick Perry, laying out a wish list of environmental rollbacks, which he discussed in a meeting with Mr. Perry.
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"On eve of China trade talks, I welcome both sides making sufficient progress to forestall future tariff hikes and even some rollbacks," Wendy Cutler, a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute and a chief trade negotiator for the Obama administration, tweeted on Wednesday.
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DATA IS BEAUTIFUL: Critics say the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) water policy unveiled Thursday is one of the biggest rollbacks to water rules in decades, but it's tough to know the extent of its impact because of challenges that come with mapping America's waterways.
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"There's no question right now about the importance of organizations like Lambda Legal to be able to play a really powerful role in resisting the rollbacks on LGBT rights," Gupta said, "while also recognizing huge opportunities to advance civil rights for the LGBT community."
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He and others noted that the bankruptcy filing was the first public disclosure of funding to Government Accountability & Oversight, which has sought emails through the Freedom of Information Act from state attorneys generals who have sued the Trump administration in opposition to environmental rollbacks.
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As the agency's assistant administrator for air and radiation, he was the legal expert behind other rollbacks of key climate change and air pollution regulations, including weakening Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from automobile tailpipes and methane from oil and gas wells.
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Iranian officials noted that the country would still work with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, and held that while compliance was suspended, the deal was not officially dead and that the rollbacks could be reversed if U.S. sanctions on the country were lifted.
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Rao -- who serves as Trump's "czar" overseeing regulatory rollbacks -- faced fierce questioning from Democrats not just for her work in the Trump administration but for commentary she wrote decades ago as a Yale University student suggesting women should change their behavior to avoid date rape.
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The Trump administration is pressuring two industries that are the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. — the auto sector and the oil and gas industry — to climb on board its climate-change denial train and endorse rollbacks that make no environmental or business sense.
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As the White House and agencies let chief executives and companies off the hook for endangering Americans, it will be ordinary working families bearing the costs of regulatory rollbacks and delays — through more frequent asthma attacks, missed work days, preventable cancers and so on.
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Opponents of the Trump administration's moves to dismantle U.S. climate policy have said they plan to use the last National Climate Assessment — which estimated in 2018 that temperatures could rise by 7 degrees by the end of the century — to argue against the rollbacks.
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No, Trump doesn't have a particularly well-developed congressional agenda, but there are clearly things he wants out of Congress, including confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and other federal judges, filling Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions, and further rollbacks of the Affordable Care Act.
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Federal and state lawmakers are considering rollbacks of Medicaid expansions implemented under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, to save money or address fiscal shortfalls, Sujha Subramanian, a health economics and policy researcher at RTI International in Waltham, Massachusetts, writes in an accompanying editorial.
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A red team-blue team debate would paint the false picture that an "is it real?" conversation about climate change is ongoing in the scientific community, and could help smooth the road for rollbacks of the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement pullout Trump has promised.
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President: Bill Clinton Senate: Republicans (53-63), Majority Leader Bob Dole House: Republicans (233-199), Speaker Newt Gingrich Why: Gingrich and Dole sent Clinton a continuing resolution including hikes to Medicare premiums, rollbacks of environmental regulations, and a requirement to balance the budget within seven years.
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White House regulatory rollbacks and higher natural gas prices have brightened the mood of the U.S. coal industry, but it still faces major headwinds and production is not heading for a multi-year resurgence, the International Energy Agency said in its just-released five-year market report.
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Since taking office, Trump's pro-business administration continues to try to boost confidence on both the steel supply and demand sides, driven by the president's steel-friendly positions on trade enforcement, infrastructure spending, regulatory rollbacks, tax breaks and prohibiting new pipeline projects from using non-American steel.
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Directing his comments specifically to the reporters present, Wheeler a former energy lobbyist who has overseen various regulatory rollbacks at EPA, said it was the responsibility of the press to change the public perception that energy and environment issues were getting worse, not better, across the country.
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In the aftermath of that decision, we have seen rollbacks to early voting, unjust voter purges, and strict voter photo ID laws that make it harder for young people, women, people of color, and individuals with low incomes to register and exercise their right to vote.
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"Our analysis suggests that 10y Treasuries will struggle to move sustainably above 2.2% (and above 2% without tariff rollbacks), largely on account of policy expectations having reset lower over the past year, and central banks signaling a high threshold for future changes," the Goldman strategists wrote.
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They have resisted many of the more polarizing policy initiatives favored by Mr. Bannon's side, including the travel ban and rollbacks of environmental regulation and of protections for transgender students, arguing that they undercut Mr. Trump's election night pledge to be a president for all Americans.
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The move came as trade experts and people close to the White House said completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with heightened demands of its own.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, trade experts and people close to the White House say, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with heightened demands of its own.
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The results of that poll came less than two hours after Trump finished delivering his speech, in which he touted the tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks of his first year in office and outlined his ambitions to revitalize the nation's infrastructure and take on immigration reform.
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Air pollution — mostly fine particulates, but also ozone and nitrogen oxides — has risen in recent years, in part due to ongoing rollbacks of regulations relating to air pollution, leading to what a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon estimate is nearly 10,000 extra deaths per year.
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Trump has said cuts to EPA funding, as well as rollbacks to certain environmental regulations, can be made without harming U.S. air and water quality something his critics says is misguided at a time of soaring oil and gas development and increased urgency over climate change.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, setting the stage to move forward with one of its most consequential climate-policy rollbacks, announced Thursday that it had decided to scrap negotiations with California over the president's plan to undo Obama-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks.
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"I think the Trump administration can do many damaging things but ultimately the law is on our side, so we'll win cases if we have to bring them against these rollbacks, and we'll also find that they'll lose in the court of public opinion," says Doniger at the NRDC.
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From high-profile moves, such as pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, to various environmental policy changes and rollbacks over the past two years, this administration's actions suggest it will continue to put the needs of manufacturing, oil, and big business ahead of addressing climate change.
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In addition to these rollbacks, the Trump-era EPA has gone after fewer criminal polluters than in past years, done next to nothing to clean up lead in water, and formed a rule that encourages the use of coal energy, which will likely lead to more air pollution.
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"Even if you do get a U.S.-China trade deal that includes tariff rollbacks ... that's not necessarily gonna be enough to ... revive the global (capital expenditure) cycle," Jonathan Cavenagh, executive director and head of emerging markets Asia foreign exchange strategy at J.P. Morgan, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Friday.
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But Pruitt has also been a reliable ally for President Donald Trump, who made easing regulations on American industries a central campaign promise, and the EPA administrator has proposed a slew of rollbacks for major environmental rules, including those governing clean air and water and fighting climate change.
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"I don't know what could be more disgusting than putting a tax cut that goes mostly to rich people ahead of the lives of children," said Kimmel, who previously has used his show's opening monologue, and emotionally cited his son's heart condition, to oppose rollbacks of Obamacare health coverage.
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The Republicans, led by Chairman John BarrassoJohn Anthony BarrassoIf Democrats want gun control, they must first concede defeat Conway: Republican concerns about gun reform 'all reconcilable' Five proposals Congress is eyeing after mass shootings MORE (R-Wyo.), have also been vocal about Pruitt, often praising his environmental rollbacks.
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" Mr. Blankfein said he was not surprised by the two-day rally in the stock market, even as some analysts had predicted a big dip if Mr. Trump was elected, because the Republican's policies — most likely a mix of corporate tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks — will be "market supportive.
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Democrats' immediate pathway on climate change will include oversight of the Trump administration's regulatory rollbacks and misuse of science, a push to make green and clean investment a centerpiece of infrastructure legislation, and climate hearings across multiple House committees, including a newly created Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
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Their passage along mostly party lines delivered a massive, permanent reduction to corporate rates, which dropped nearly 15% points from 35%, cut levies on individual and pass-through income (provisions that will expire at the end of 2025) and set the stage for potential future rollbacks in social spending.
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Nevertheless, even as Mr. Pruitt proposed historic rollbacks of government rules, jokes about a used mattress, a Chick-fil-A fast food franchise and a $50-a-night condo became shorthand in American culture for an E.P.A. under fire as ethics crises consumed his top aides one by one.
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That reversal has been propelled in part by the Interior Department's willingness to go along with industry pressure to weaken rules that govern how these federal lands can be used, as regulators follow detailed industry scripts for rollbacks in protections for wildlife, air quality and groundwater supplies, documents show.
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The rollbacks include loosening restrictions on bank traders, easing up on annual stress tests of a bank's ability to withstand financial shocks, and advising regulators to rethink capital levels that big banks find onerous but that should be higher to make sure banks can absorb losses without bailouts.
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An intermittently immersive piece created by the playwright Sheila Callaghan and the director Daniella Topol, with an assist from the playwright Liza Birkenmeier, "(Not) Water" explores a substance that most if us take for granted, even as proposed government rollbacks, persistent droughts and lead contamination erode that confidence.
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The institutional investors, which include several religious funds as well as a fund established by the late oil heir David Rockefeller, warned companies that many of the administration's rollbacks of public land protections are legally precarious, and may be struck down by the courts or the next presidential administration.
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Rao — who serves as Trump's "czar" overseeing regulatory rollbacks — is expected to face fierce questioning from Democrats not just for her work in the Trump administration but for commentary she wrote decades ago as a Yale University student suggesting women should change their behavior to avoid date rape.
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Speaking over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mr. Pruitt told an audience, to applause, "I think there are some regulations that in the near term need to be rolled back in a very aggressive way," and he said those rollbacks would probably begin this week.
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"Beijing is invested in the deal insofar as it helps the leadership's drive to stabilize the economy and boost market confidence; at the same time, it is hoping for further tariff rollbacks in due course," Eleanor Olcott, China policy analyst at the firm, wrote in a Thursday report.
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Even with inaction by a White House that prefers to ignore or deny climate change -- withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and activating rollbacks on the Clean Power Plan -- there are localized measures that could defer a crash of the US coastal property bubble due to rising sea levels.
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In Michigan on Wednesday, he stood in a gleaming center devoted to automotive innovation, offering workers the policy equivalent of a beat-up wreck from the 1980s: tariffs, closed borders, regulatory rollbacks and a sugar-high assurance to restore American manufacturing to its heyday of half a century ago.
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The Environmental Protection Agency recorded 15 percent more days with unhealthy air in the country in 2018 and 2017 compared to the average from 2013 to 2016, partly due to regulatory rollbacks by the Trump administration, which is dead-set on undoing much of the country's environmental regulatory framework.
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His efforts — his staff said that the rules already rolled back had saved $8.1 billion in regulatory costs over their lifetime, or a total of an estimated $570 million a year — have brought cheers from the business community, most notably from companies that will benefit from the rollbacks.
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The Trump administration has leased out three times more federally controlled oil and gas land for drilling in the last year than the Obama administration averaged annually during its second term, in part by following scripts for environmental protection rollbacks laid out by the oil and gas industry.
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She is also one in a smaller wave of trans candidates inspired to run up and down the ballot (from city council to now Governor) following the rise of increased political attacks on trans Americans in recent years, from transphobic bathroom bills to rollbacks in protections for trans kids at school.
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" Greg Boutle, U.S. head of equity and derivative strategy at BNP Paribas, actually saw more downside risks than upside catalysts: "The market's become much more optimistic about a trade deal and potentially tariff rollbacks, so I actually see the risk from trade now more asymmetric and more potentially to the downside.
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The Trump administration has proposed rollbacks of several Obama-era pollution control efforts, including weakening fuel economy targets, revising coal ash regulations and loosening emission standards on coal-fueled plants that, by the EPA's own estimate, would result in up to 1,400 more premature deaths a year as of 2030.
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A flurry of earnings reports on Thursday includes JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, and Cramer is paying attention to net interest margins, or the "free money" banks make from deposits, loan growth, which he hopes has not slowed from the first quarter, and expenses in the midst of regulatory rollbacks.
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"The president will continue to work with Congress and the rest of the federal government until every unnecessary regulation that stands in the way of success for American business and American people is taken off the books," press secretary Sean Spicer said before Trump signed off on several CRA-passed rollbacks.
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Van der Vaart's department went out of its way to tout the financial savings these rollbacks were creating for polluting interests, but failed to fully acknowledge the reality that the proposal would deliver more toxic air pollution for children and families living in the communities where these facilities are located.
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Another chief obstacle is reconciling the reservations of Republican senators from states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — including Senators Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia — whose constituents would face rollbacks under the House bill.
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The rollbacks would apply to commando raids and drone strikes outside of conventional battlefields, and would affect missions in countries where the U.S. has not targeted active Islamic militants, as well as countries such as Yemen, Libya and Somalia, where the U.S. are taken aim at militants, according to the report.
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The backlash was most pronounced from figures on the Democratic left, both inside the chamber and out, who say the bill, if it gets to President Donald Trump (no sure thing, as House Republicans want more comprehensive rollbacks that could scare off Democrats), will heighten the risk of another crisis.
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The rollbacks cap a carefully coordinated campaign over the last eight years led in part by Devon, which is based in Oklahoma City and is the nation's eighth-largest natural gas producer, and Mr. Pruitt, who served six years as Oklahoma attorney general before Mr. Trump named him E.P.A. chief.
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Outside of the changes in access to its web and desktop apps, Grover doesn't mention rollbacks to any of its other initiatives, which include making its mobile apps completely free, and offering 10GB of cloud storage to let you upload your own audio and video content with the premium service.
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From one day to the next, the Trump presidency unfolds more or less like a normal Republican presidency—that is, by committing one determined act of rote negligence or flamboyant cruelty at a time, building into a blustering drumbeat of rollbacks and stymies and 37-year-old federal judge appointees.
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During the meeting, Wayne D'Angelo, head of energy litigation at D.C.-based Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, noted that EarthJustice, Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups had sued the administration more than three hundred times over its rollbacks of Obama-era rules, including those on methane emissions and hydraulic fracturing.
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He was involved in persuading Donald Trump to leave the Paris climate accords and has spearheaded a number of rollbacks of Obama-era initiatives, including reversing the Clean Power Plan, as well as smaller repeals like on a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been shown to cause developmental problems in children.
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The benchmark STOXX 600 index had risen to its highest in over four years last week on signs of progress in U.S.-China trade talks, although investors are wary about a trade deal with Beijing after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China.
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While some of these dreams have come true, many more have been held back by legal and legislative rollbacks and threatened by a resurgence of white nativism that has mainstreamed "old school" racism and catapulted a major presidential candidate who is openly supported by members of white supremacist groups and other hate groups.
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Yet even as the list of failed or at least stalled rollbacks continues to grow, the Trump administration, in many other cases, continues to move ahead with its agenda, often trying a number of different approaches to killing the same rule, so that early setbacks do not necessarily mean anything has been settled.
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"Today's announcement of Title IX rollbacks is the latest in a troubling pattern of Secretary DeVos' efforts to dismantle the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights and turn the federal government's back on students who are suffering, vulnerable or disenfranchised," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in a statement.
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Mr. Trump's directive at the meeting grants a reprieve to automakers, who lobbied for a relaxation of rules aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide — a major contributor to global warming — but in recent weeks became increasingly nervous that the zealousness of the proposed rollbacks would provoke a battle with California.
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While significant aspects of the president's broader agenda — including immigration and trade policy, and the proposed border wall with Mexico — remain mired in confusion, and as the administration struggles under the investigation into the presidential campaign's ties with Russia, the E.P.A. and Interior Department have steadily pressed forward with rollbacks of environmental regulations.
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Growing Crisis Threatens Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief, as Top Aide Eyes Exit For Scott Pruitt, a Spotlight Shines on His Ethics, Not His E.P.A. Rollbacks Mick Mulvaney, in his first congressional report as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, called on lawmakers to cripple the bureau's power and independence.
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"This is a small deal, a pause in the trade conflict that will prevent further tariff escalation and offer some tariff rollbacks in exchange for Chinese purchase commitments and a reiteration of some modest economic reforms that were already underway," Edward Alden, a trade scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations, told me.
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Increasingly unfettered by a declining bloc of dissident party moderates from the Northeast and Pacific Coast, ascendant red-state Republicans have prioritized an ambitious conservative economic agenda encompassing regulatory rollbacks, repeal of the Affordable Care Act and substantial cuts to federal taxes — like the tax bill passed last week — and entitlement programs.
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Chris Van HollenChristopher (Chris) Van HollenOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Democratic senators press Interior official over proposed changes to migratory bird protections Democrats tear into Trump's speech: It was a 'MAGA rally' MORE (D-Md.).
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Thursday: Big banks, small banks, Taiwan Semiconductor JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo will report earnings in the morning, and Cramer is paying attention to net interest margins, or the "free money" banks make from deposits, loan growth, which he hopes has not slowed from the first quarter, and expenses in the midst of regulatory rollbacks.
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It is the latest in a long series of regulatory repeals or rollbacks from President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE intended to benefit the coal industry.
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However, the widely-publicized rollbacks of Obama-era rules like one governing small rivers and streams and another increasing emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks may have fueled some of the exuberance of mid-2018, as evidenced by the National Federation of Independent Business' all-time high optimism index reading in August.
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The House is expected to approve next week a Senate-passed bill to exempt dozens of banks from stricter Federal Reserve oversight, and the Fed board has proposed rollbacks of capital buffers and leverage ratios on larger banks "It matters more than ever who will be voting on proposals to weaken bank rules," Brown said.
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"The administration is essentially taking advantage of the fact that the public is distracted and in fact disabled from fully engaging against this ideological push," said David J. Hayes, director of the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law, which works with attorneys general to challenge environmental rollbacks.
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And if expanding offshore drilling isn't bad enough, this plan follows a series of proposed rollbacks announced by the administration last week of safety rules that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 people and caused the nation's worst oil spill.
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Included in those rollbacks were regulations that would have limited the way coal mining companies could dump debris into streams after blowing up mountaintops to gain access to coal deposits, and a requirement for oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments in exchange for access to drilling or mining rights.
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Right out of the gate, they want her to move quickly on college debt relief, talk up a minimum wage increase and pay close attention to resisting any Dodd-Frank rollbacks as she negotiates an expected tax reform deal as part of the infrastructure bill she's said would be part of her first 100 days.
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The Brookings Institution has a detailed tracker that follows proposed regulatory rollbacks that range from loosening some rules in meatpacking plants to killing new proposed rules for fracking operators to allowing new oil drilling off US shores to relaxing emission limits for new coal plants to repeatedly delaying a rule requiring railroad companies to implement a new safety system.
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Many wonder why more Americans aren't outraged at Trump's bromance with Vladimir Putin, blatant conflicts of interests, receipt of benefits for foreign policy; cascade of lies, withdrawal from Syria, threat to withdraw from NATO, environmental rollbacks, inhuman treatment of child immigrants, racism, mocking a disabled person, and indictments of multiple Trump associates and Russians connected with Trump's 2016 election.
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That started with his condemnation of Obamacare but has continued with his decision to de-certify the Iran nuclear deal, his pullout from the Paris climate accords, his support for the Keystone XL pipeline, his regulatory rollbacks, his plan to end DACA and lots (and lots) of other policy decision from this administration in its first nine months.
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"This headwind is unlikely to be fully offset by the partial tariff rollbacks that are being proposed as part of the 'Phase One' trade deal, especially given that the recent appreciation of the renminbi in anticipation of a deal means that the exchange rate will act as less of a prop to outbound shipments," he added.
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The rollbacks, which were spurred by a court decision ordering EPA to overhaul the use of unlined ponds, target 2015 Obama administration rules that required power plants to invest in wastewater treatment technology and monitoring of coal ash ponds, measures they estimated would stop some 21625 billion pounds of coal ash from entering rivers and streams.
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But while DeVos's actions may be trademark Trumpism, they are also continuous with a long history of fleecing that has been going on since World War II. No one was more dismayed this week than the Obama veterans who worked to crack down on for-profits, who described the rollbacks as one step forward, two steps back.
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The rollbacks, which were spurred by a court decision ordering EPA to overhaul the use of unlined ponds, target 2202 Obama administration rules that required power plants to invest in wastewater treatment technology and monitoring of coal ash ponds, measures they estimated would stop some 2628 billion pounds of coal ash from entering rivers and streams.
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While Wheeler hasn't created any major controversies since taking the helm of the EPA July 9, Democrats still expect to press him on a number of issues, including recent meetings he's held with former energy industry clients — something he promised in an interview with Bloomberg that he wouldn't do — and his approach to regulatory rollbacks proposed by Pruitt.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., Monday denied the Trump administration's attempt to move lawsuits challenging President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's national monument rollbacks to a Utah court.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE frequently rails against "job-destroying regulations" and has promised vast rollbacks of the regulatory state.
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Jay Inslee that there are 3 women on the Democratic debate stage Wednesday 'who have fought for a woman's right to choose'Amy Klobuchar's first 100 days as president would include massive rollbacks of Trump's policiesAmy Klobuchar is running as a pragmatic, moderate Democrat to take on Trump in 2020 — here's why she could lose the primary.
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Chris Van HollenChristopher (Chris) Van HollenOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Democratic senators press Interior official over proposed changes to migratory bird protections Democrats tear into Trump's speech: It was a 'MAGA rally' MORE (D-Md.), a former House member and close Pelosi ally.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy to submit copy of Trump's SOTU address to House Clerk for archives Overnight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds McCarthy tears up articles of impeachment against Trump MORE (R-Calif.) holds at 2900:220006 a.m.
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The administrator made the comments before being pelted with questions about recent regulatory rollbacks done under President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE having to do with methane, carbon and car emissions.
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The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee on Friday pressed federal regulators for updates on their efforts to finalize rule rollbacks signed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in 2018. Rep.
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Yet the shock makes sense when you trace the curious history of abortion on the small screen—and when you consider the alarmingly frail state of reproductive rights today: In a recent editorial that can be read as a primer for understanding abortion restrictions known as TRAP laws, the New York Times called 2015 the year of reproductive rights rollbacks.
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A series of false starts at the federal level (President Obama tried to make free community college a thing in 2015, and Bernie and Hillary both had their own "free college" planks in the 2016 race) paired with rollbacks to federal student aid and loan forgiveness programs under Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, have a national solution looking further away than ever.
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The string of regulatory rollbacks, passed using a once little-known law called the Congressional Review Act, did reverse pending rules approved in the last days of the Obama administration, including one aimed at protecting internet privacy, one aimed at preventing coal companies from dumping waste into streams, and another intended to bar people with mental illnesses from buying guns.
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Where virtually all of Mr. Pruitt's hastily written rollbacks and suspensions have been blocked by the courts, Mr. Wheeler has taken a far more deliberative approach, immersing himself in the legal intricacies — a strategy that could make Mr. Wheeler one of the most effective drivers of the Trump administration's ambitious plan to rewrite the nation's rule book on the environment and climate.
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It's a model Xavier Becerra in California, Tish James in New York, Bob Ferguson in Washington, and other Democratic AGs have pursued during the Trump era: Well before Nancy Pelosi took up the speaker's gavel again in 22015, blue-state attorneys general from were suing to hobble the administration's policies on everything from immigration and food stamp eligibility to environmental rollbacks.
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On a near daily basis, regulated industries are now sending in specific requests to the Trump administration for more rollbacks, including recent appeals from 17 automakers to rescind an agreement to increase mileage standards for their fleets, and another from pharmaceutical industry figures to reverse a new rule that tightens scrutiny over the marketing of prescription drugs for unapproved uses.
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Several sources outlined three feuding factions within EPA: firm conservatives who want to see a more aggressive pullback of the agency's regulatory footprint; career employees, many of whom are concerned the new administration is hostile to environmental and climate concerns; and Pruitt's inner circle, who are reluctant to go along with some of the most unpopular rollbacks that are controversial even among moderate Republicans.
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Several sources outlined to CNN three feuding factions within the agency: firm conservatives who want to see a more aggressive pullback of the agency's regulatory footprint; career employees, many of whom are concerned the new administration is hostile to environmental and climate concerns; and Pruitt's inner circle, who are reluctant to go along with some of the most unpopular rollbacks that are controversial even among moderate Republicans.
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The rolling protest, which hit three states in less than 24 hours, shipped off to West Virginia for an afternoon event in Charleston on Sunday, giving Sanders and allies another chance to turn the screws on three Republican senators -- Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Rob Portman in Ohio, and Shelley Moore Capito in West Virginia -- whose states are expected to take disproportionate hits from the GOP's Medicaid rollbacks.
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The CEA argued in its economic report that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's 2017 tax-cut law and his rollbacks of regulations have boosted the economy.
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The U.S. stock market also exploded in value as investors salivated over tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks enacted by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and congressional Republicans.
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"As we look at stopping the rollbacks of the past 50 years of progress that are happening at the state, local, and federal level, we need more progressive voices in legislative bodies and in executive chambers," Kimberly Peeler-Allen, the co-founder of Higher Heights for America, a national organization that works to get more black women involved in politics, told me in January.
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Mnuchin added that the president has "significant" executive authority to protect the economy and will be rolling out "various proposals" without specifying a timeline or details Banks are also facing political pressure from Democrats and liberal groups who fear the industry may use a time of economic crises to seek looser bank regulations after years of regulatory rollbacks under President Trump and regulators appointed by the president.
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In the last few months, and without consulting a single foreign leader, he has ordered rollbacks of every one of the policies on which President Barack Obama based his ambitious pledge to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 703 levels by 2025 — most prominently, policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, automobiles and oil and gas wells.
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With Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's victory last November, and a number of regulatory rollbacks made by the young administration, conservatives have the impression that the era of expansive federal regulations was over.
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Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew WheelerAndrew WheelerEPA walks back use of 'cyanide bombs' to protect livestock from wild animals EPA proposes rolling back states' authority over pipeline projects New Mexico says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals' MORE on Monday emphatically defended his agency's environmental policy rollbacks as he argued that the EPA is significantly contributing to children's health.
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There was the freeze on important HIV science involving fetal cell tissue, the defunding of Planned Parenthood, White House interference in an international breastfeeding resolution for women's health, the elimination of a science adviser's office at the Environmental Protection Agency, and all the rollbacks of environmental protections at EPA and Interior, backed by a White House trying to downplay two major climate science reports.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy to submit copy of Trump's SOTU address to House Clerk for archives Overnight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds McCarthy tears up articles of impeachment against Trump MORE (R-Calif.) also released footage of himself ripping the articles of impeachment following the Senate's official vote.
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In the face of anticipated rollbacks in health care coverage being proposed by the Trump administration in the name of "religious freedom," we must be willing to engage with the hard question of how to balance an individual's need to control her own health choices (which requires affordable access) with the sincere religious views of houses of worship, religiously affiliated nonprofits, and other similar institutions providing insurance coverage.
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California has taken the lead in challenging EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's regulatory rollbacks dealing largely with pollution and climate change.
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Why it matters: The meeting could be a precursor to the DOJ joining the Facebook investigation, which is led by New York and includes 7 other state attorneys general, plus D.C. The big picture: James has been at the forefront of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration over immigration, environmental rollbacks and other policies, and she is also at odds with the Justice Department over the T-Mobile-Sprint merger.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has touted his ability to reach lofty economic goals, with officials arguing that his tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and the infrastructure plan will usher in faster economic growth.
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The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) independent board of science advisers, many of whom were appointed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE, condemned the agency Tuesday for ignoring important research and the panel's own advice as the EPA continues with numerous regulatory rollbacks.
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"These rollbacks for fuel efficiency requirements are quite simply brazen and irresponsible," subcommittee Chairman Harley RoudaHarley Edwin RoudaOvernight Energy: Jerry Brown testifies on emissions fight | Brown presses climate action: 'Impeachment is important, but the climate is even more important' | Dems look to protect Grand Canyon from drilling Jerry Brown: 'Impeachment is important, but the climate is even more important' Republicans move to end car emissions hearing early due to impeachment proceedings MORE (D-Calif.) said.
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"These rollbacks for fuel efficiency requirements are quite simply brazen and irresponsible," subcommittee Chairman Harley RoudaHarley Edwin RoudaOvernight Energy: Jerry Brown testifies on emissions fight | Brown presses climate action: 'Impeachment is important, but the climate is even more important' | Dems look to protect Grand Canyon from drilling Jerry Brown: 'Impeachment is important, but the climate is even more important' Republicans move to end car emissions hearing early due to impeachment proceedings MORE (D-Calif) said.
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It has also been a repeated target of changes under the Trump administration, first under former EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott Pruitt EPA asked to justify proposal to limit power of its science advisers EPA employees push 'bill of rights' to protect scientific integrity EPA's independent science board questions underpinnings of numerous agency rollbacks MORE, who barred people from sitting on the board if they received any EPA grant funding, calling it a conflict of interest.
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California Attorney General Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE (D), who has speerheaded a number of court battles against the Trump administration's environmental regulation rollbacks, called the new rule a refusal to manage carbon pollution.
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Multiple Democratic committee chairs, including Frank Pallone, the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Richard Neal, the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Bobby Scott, the chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, all got up during the meeting to speak about both the Department of Justice filing last night and the legislative package of Obamacare fixes and rollbacks of Trump administration health care policies that House Democrats unveiled on Tuesday.
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An environmental group is trying to block one of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's most far-reaching environmental rollbacks from taking effect, arguing the administration has not provided proper access to public documents on a new rule that would limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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A NEPA NOPE-A: An environmental group is trying to block one of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE's most far-reaching environmental rollbacks from taking effect, arguing the administration has not provided proper access to public documents on a new rule that would limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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If you'd prefer to register offline, you can register over the phone by calling the Marketplace Call Center at 1-800-318-2596, mail in a paper application, or make an appointment with a Navigator near you to get some one-on-one assistance The insurance market has been pretty shaken up in the wake of all these ACA rollbacks and fakeouts, so it's more important than ever to make sure you're qualifying for as much financial assistance as possible.
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Democratic senators wasted no time Tuesday hounding Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), over his regulatory rollbacks and questioning what they see as potentially ulterior motives at the agency.
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That is due in large part to former EPA Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEPA's independent science board questions underpinnings of numerous agency rollbacks Overnight Energy: Rate of new endangered species listings falls | EPA approves use of 'cyanide bombs' to protect livestock | Watchdog says EPA didn't conduct required analyses EPA didn't conduct required analyses of truck engine rule: internal watchdog MORE, who barred appointees from serving on the board if they received agency grants for their research — something he called a conflict of interest.
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"Congress should toss this Trump budget into the dustbin of history like they've done with the other ones," former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthyRegina (Gina) McCarthyOvernight Energy: Trump budget slashes EPA funding | International hunting council disbands amid lawsuit | Bill targets single-use plastics Trump budget slashes EPA funding, environmental programs Overnight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds MORE, who served during the Obama administration and is now head of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
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Wade Democratic group to only endorse attorney general candidates who back abortion rights MORE (D-Ill.), Jared HuffmanJared William HuffmanAmerica needs a transformative transportation bill: It will take walking and biking to get there Overnight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Ex-Obama EPA chief expresses skepticism on carbon capture MORE (D-Calif.) and Chris PappasChristopher (Chris) Charles PappasAmerica needs a transformative transportation bill: It will take walking and biking to get there New Hampshire Rep.
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Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthyRegina (Gina) McCarthyOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Ex-Obama EPA chief expresses skepticism on carbon capture Overnight Energy: Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking | Trump officials propose rolling back law protecting migratory birds | Green groups threaten to sue EPA over airplane pollution MORE expressed doubts Wednesday over investing in carbon capture technology, saying that focus should instead be on limiting fossil fuel extraction.
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J.), Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Buttigieg, Sanders look to carry momentum to New Hampshire Democrat gives standing ovation to Trump comments on opportunity zones Early winners and losers from the Iowa caucuses MORE (Calif.) and Kirsten GillibrandKirsten GillibrandOvernight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds Democrats praise Romney for breaking with GOP on convicting Trump Democratic senators press Interior official over proposed changes to migratory bird protections MORE (N.
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Attendees at the prayer breakfast included Vice President Pence, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy to submit copy of Trump's SOTU address to House Clerk for archives Overnight Energy: Trump credits economic progress to environmental rollbacks | Vote to subpoena Interior delayed by prayer breakfast | Dems hit agency for delaying energy efficiency funds McCarthy tears up articles of impeachment against Trump MORE (R-Calif.), members of Trump's Cabinet and Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiPelosi, Schumer praise Romney after impeachment vote Senate acquits Trump, ending impeachment saga McCarthy to submit copy of Trump's SOTU address to House Clerk for archives MORE (D-Calif.).
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These rollbacks from President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew WheelerAndrew WheelerEPA walks back use of 'cyanide bombs' to protect livestock from wild animals EPA proposes rolling back states' authority over pipeline projects New Mexico says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals' MORE – a former coal lobbyist – will leave more dangerous pollution in our communities and set climate progress back for generations to come.
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