The Washington Post
By Juliet Eilperin
April 16, 2017
Just days after taking office, President Trump invited
American manufacturers to recommend ways the government could cut regulations
and make it easier for companies to get their projects approved.
Industry leaders responded with scores of suggestions
that paint the clearest picture yet of the dramatic steps that Trump officials
are likely to take in overhauling federal policies, especially those designed
to advance environmental protection and safeguard worker rights.
Those clues are embedded in the 168 comments submitted
to the government after Trump signed a presidential memorandum Jan. 24
instructing the Commerce Department to figure out how to ease permitting and
trim regulations with the aim of boosting domestic manufacturing. The
Environmental Protection Agency has emerged as the primary target in these
comments, accounting for nearly half, with the Labor Department in second place
as the subject of more than one-fifth, according to a Commerce Department
analysis.
Among the notable items on industry’s to-do list:
●BP wants to make it easier to drill for oil and gas
in the Gulf of Mexico by reducing how often companies must renew their leases.
●A trade association representing the pavement
industry wants to preclude the U.S. Geological Survey from conducting what the
group says is “advocacy research” into the environmental impact of coal tar.
The Pavement Coatings Technology Council says this research could limit what it
uses to seal parking lots and driveways.
●The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to reduce the
amount of time opponents have to challenge federal approval of projects.
Challenges would have to be filed within two years, down from six.
●The Chamber also wants to jettison a requirement that
employers report their injury and illness records electronically to the Labor
Department so they can be posted “on the internet for anyone to see.”
●And in its 51-page comment, “Make Federal Agencies
Responsible Again,” the Associated General Contractors of America recommended
repealing 11 of President Barack Obama’s executive orders and memorandums,
including one establishing paid sick leave for government contractors…..
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