Jack - Perhaps the lame state officials you are relying on use this as an excuse for inaction at the State level, but you are simply wrong on the preemption issue. Both Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act explicitly provide for States to adopt more stringent standards and permit requirements, and not necessarily solely on State law but on delegated federal law. The Supreme Court Clean Water Act case you are probably referring to involved inter-state and common law issues - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/479/481/
Here is a Congressional Research Service primer on preemption for you to read:
In terms of you seeing no difference between Trump versus Biden, again, you just lack facts - I don't want to wast time on the ideological and cultural issues, but in limited terms of governing, here's two examples: check out Biden's Executive Order on reversing Trump Executive Orders on the environment: (yes, I know that most of it is rhetoric)
Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
In terms of Fascism, you missed the content I was referring to - the Group "Refuse Fascism" has numerous podcasts with experts and activists involved in opposing fascsim that can explain things for you. Or you could refer to any of the writings (at CounterPunch) or books of historian Paul Street. Do more reading!
Of course, you seem completely unaware of Trump's actual policy agenda, which defined in detail by the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" radical Report, read it here:
Jack - Perhaps the lame state officials you are relying on use this as an excuse for inaction at the State level, but you are simply wrong on the preemption issue. Both Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act explicitly provide for States to adopt more stringent standards and permit requirements, and not necessarily solely on State law but on delegated federal law. The Supreme Court Clean Water Act case you are probably referring to involved inter-state and common law issues - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/479/481/
Here is a Congressional Research Service primer on preemption for you to read:
https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19990823_RS20280_12cc4002c20e5b77969ebad0af0e430cbb9ea372.pdf
In terms of you seeing no difference between Trump versus Biden, again, you just lack facts - I don't want to wast time on the ideological and cultural issues, but in limited terms of governing, here's two examples: check out Biden's Executive Order on reversing Trump Executive Orders on the environment: (yes, I know that most of it is rhetoric)
Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/
Here's another (ignore the LNG export issue and look at the rest:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-temporary-pause-on-pending-approvals-of-liquefied-natural-gas-exports/#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20Biden%2DHarris%20Administration,the%20underlying%20analyses%20for%20authorizations.
In terms of Fascism, you missed the content I was referring to - the Group "Refuse Fascism" has numerous podcasts with experts and activists involved in opposing fascsim that can explain things for you. Or you could refer to any of the writings (at CounterPunch) or books of historian Paul Street. Do more reading!
Of course, you seem completely unaware of Trump's actual policy agenda, which defined in detail by the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" radical Report, read it here:
https://bwolfe.substack.com/p/were-shifting-focus-here-to-try-to