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US pork is very well regulated and is considered a premium product because it meets comparatively strict standards...
The USA sells about 6-10 billion dollar worth of pork to China each year.... twenty years ago we sold very little outside of the usa... these days our good clean premium pork sells around the world.
We currently export about 2 million metric tonnes of pork each year. We will lose our premium pricing and some volume if our standards fall.....
This is why deregulation might sound good but is really bad long term. Trump either knows or has stumbled on to a quick buck to juice the books for a couple of years, but he does so at the cost of your long term job security... You can deregulate and profit more for a short while, but it catches up and you have to grind your way back...
I remember not being allowed to swim in Lake Erie because of the noxious brown foam that churned on top of the water. And I remember the first time, 20 years later after the Clean Water Act had time to make a difference, that I could see my feet while standing in waist-deep water.
US pork is very well regulated and is considered a premium product because it meets comparatively strict standards...
The USA sells about 6-10 billion dollar worth of pork to China each year.... twenty years ago we sold very little outside of the usa... these days our good clean premium pork sells around the world.
We currently export about 2 million metric tonnes of pork each year. We will lose that if our standards fall.....
This is why deregulation might sound good but is really bad long term. Trump either knows or has stumbled on to a quick buck to juice the books for a couple of years, but he does so at the cost of your long term job security... You can deregulate and profit more for a short while, but it catches up and you have to grind your way back...
I'm not sure that your friends jobs are any more important than anyone else's job. If their skill set is actually in demand, then they shouldn't have trouble finding work. If not, they may have to work fast food for a while. Either way, its not the end of the world.
EPA and the greenies are out of control. I support clean air and water etc, but it's turning into a huge land grab for non-motorized user groups (as just one example).
There has to be a balance.
Let me guess, you're an ATV rider and just love to go four-wheeling on federally owned land and don't see why you can't do that everywhere on federal land.
I've experienced what ATVs can do, and it ain't pretty. That damage can last a long, long time.
This was last minute Obama regulation that never went into effect.
There is already laws in place for this at both the federal and state levels, at the state level it could exceed federal law. The new law would have eliminated vasts amount of areas rich in coal for mining and was simply way to burdensome.
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Perhaps regulations related to logging. Or what if oil was discovered inside of one of the national forests in the state?
Forests need to either be managed through logging or allowed to burn, logging when done properly helps preserve a natural cycle. Forests that are not allowed to burn end up with vasts amounts of fuel standing and on the ground. When do they burn it leaves a sterile landscape because of all the fuel.
Just FYI there is slightly more forested area in the US that there was 100 years ago, it's remained relatively stable in that time frame.
As far as drilling on public lands here in PA the state game commission controls vasts amounts of acreage. The land land has been obtained over the past 100 years primarily through hunting license fees. It's open to hunters and the general public but it's probably a wise decision to stay out of those areas during hunting season. By leasing lands to the gas drillers they have brand new source of revenue allowing them to keep the hunting licenses in check, expand the agency and it helps acquire new land that will be preserved for hunting purposes and uses by the general public.
We wouldn't have an EPA or the Clean Water Act (both signed into law by a Republican president!) without that 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga, but the Cuyahoga wasn't the only river in the country that ever caught fire - the Chicago River, for one, caught fire much more frequently.
Pruitt used lawyers from the fossil fuel lobby to fight environmental regulations, he even allowed them to prepare letters using the state AG letter head. I wouldn't call that balance.
Were you complaining when the EPA was colluding with environmental groups?
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and then there is his connections to the oil companies, balanced?
That is two way street, when EPA officials have connections with environmental groups?
What do Trump supporters hate about clean air, clean water & clean soil?
I am completely baffled by this choice of nominee.
If this is the extent of your thinking on the subject, I can understand why you're completely baffled--probably about a lot of things.
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