The swamp is alive and well!When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers, the obvious winners from the proposal, balked. The changes, they said, went too far even for them.
But it turns out that there was a hidden beneficiary of the plan that was pushing for the changes all along: the nation’s oil industry.
In Congress, on Facebook and in statehouses nationwide, Marathon Petroleum, the country’s largest refiner, worked with powerful oil-industry groups and a conservative policy network financed by the billionaire industrialist Charles G. Koch to run a stealth campaign to roll back car emissions standards,a New York Times investigation has found.
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Ah, so MAGA isn't all it's cracked up to be?This administration has everyone in horror and outrage fatigue. They are dismantling every protection of public health and safety. They are working to make the U.S. a leader in 18th century industry while China trains the developers of the next generation of artificial intelligence. The resistance is getting overwhelmed and like the republiCON senator said about #45 breaking the law: "I don't care"
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Ah, so MAGA isn't all it's cracked up to be?
Ah, so MAGA isn't all it's cracked up to be?
Dirtier air and burning more gas makes America great? Who knew?No, rolling back the regulatory state is exactly what will MAGA. That you dont understand this is hardly a surprise.
Ah yes, back to the nostalgic glory days of the 1970s, prior to the horrible environmental regulations that we now suffer under.No, rolling back the regulatory state is exactly what will MAGA. That you dont understand this is hardly a surprise.
No, rolling back the regulatory state is exactly what will MAGA. That you dont understand this is hardly a surprise.
Dirtier air and burning more gas makes America great? Who knew?
Connected corporations who lobby to pass self serving policies is exactly the swamp that was supposed to be drained.
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