Pruitt leaves its mark on companies but will it last?

As Chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt tried to roll back the rules affecting many industries, but if he changed the government's business regulations on a long-term basis or omitted to leave an inheritance, the courts could decide. Pruitt has attempted to reverse efforts to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, reduce the more stringent vehicle fuel efficiency standards and suspend stricter rules on runoff from farms – disputes and in some cases, legal disputes. But they did not disappoint his boss, President Donald Trump, who tweeted: "Scott did a remarkable job."

Pruitt, a former Republican Attorney General in Oklahoma, suddenly resigned Thursday "

Industry groups praised Pruitt for easing the regulatory burden during his brief term.

"We appreciate Scott Pruitt's hard work to promote smarter regulation and simplify procedures. According to Michael Tadeo, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute, there is no indication that Andrew Wheeler, MP for Pruitt at the EPA and former lobbyist for the coal industry, take a different approach to policy. – Trump said as much in another tweet.

Environmentalists, however, are confident that they will prevail in the legal challenges of Pruitt's most controversial actions, including Kara Cook, director of a toxic substances program of the US environmental group PIRG, stated that Pruitt's strategy was to "restrict the utility of the EPA to the benefit of the industry". By being too zealous to push back these rules, I believe that most of his decisions will be overturned by the courts or by a future EPA. "

Here's how Pruitt changed the role of the government in protecting the environment: [19659002] – CHARCOAL: Pruitt tried last year to repeal a key regulation on climate change from the administration of President Barack Obama.The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal – fired power plants by a third by 2030. EPA is expected this summer

The EPA also stated that it was rewriting rules governing coal ash pollution, a waste byproduct of coal-fired power plants containing toxic heavy metals, hailed by the utilities and disputed by environmentalists

– THE MINING: The EPA said last year that it will not require mining companies that they prove that They have the necessary financial resources to clean up pollution, a rule of the Obama era that stems from a long history of pollution from abandoned mines in the watercourse. Pruitt said that modern mining practices and existing regulations made financial requirements unnecessary and a burden on mining.

– AUTOS: Pruitt's EPA proposes vehicle freezing standards at 2020 levels for the next five years, according to a draft proposal obtained by Senator Tom Carper, D-Del. For new vehicles, this means an average of about 30 miles per gallon instead of moving to 36 mpg in 2025 as proposed by the Obama EPA

– OIL AND GAS: More than A dozen states are suing the EPA for failing to take action against leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, from oil and gas wells natural. Last year, a Federal Court of Appeal ruled that Pruitt had exceeded his authority by trying to block an Obama era rule requiring companies to monitor and reduce methane leakage

– AGRICULTURE: In March 2017, a month later consider banning the use of a widely used pesticide, chlorpyrifos, on food crops for at least five years. The pesticide has been banned for domestic use since 2001, but farm groups want to continue to use it.

In February, Pruitt suspended for two years a change in the Obama era – in legal terms, the definition of "US waters". "- which would extend the protection of watercourses and wetlands and hold farmers and developers responsible for pollution by runoff into their watercourses.