Tired of your straw decomposing before you’re halfway through your drink? Sick of only being able to buy LED bulbs? If so, relief is in sight.
President Donald Trump took multiple actions this week to roll back some of the small, burdensome environmental mandates and regulations imposed by the Biden administration that impact Americans on a daily basis by limiting consumer choice.
President Trump’s efforts began on Monday with an executive order targeting the Biden Administration’s “irrational” push for paper straws, banning the federal procurement of paper straws.
“Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to human health, are more expensive to produce than plastic straws, and often force users to use multiple straws,” Trump said.
“Additionally, paper straws sometimes come individually wrapped in plastic, undermining the environmental argument for their use,” he added.
Trump’s order prevents any federal agencies from procuring paper straws and instructs them to undo any rules and regulations intended to discourage plastic straws implemented to comply with a 2021 executive order by former President Joe Biden.
The order also instructs agency heads to terminate contracts with states and other entities that prohibit plastic straws.
As the New York Times reported in 2018, the original move to ban straws was, indeed, irrational, since the entire movement was based on the claim of a 9-year-old boy who claimed that Americans used 500 million plastic straws per day. That claim later was picked and repeated over and over again by supposedly authoritative environmental groups and only debunked years later.
On Tuesday, Trump also took aim at regulations dictating water use caps on appliances and lightbulb choice by publicly calling on his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to abolish Biden administration restrictions on water flow for appliances and its ban on incandescent lights.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS,” said Trump on Truth Social.
In 2023, the Biden Administration finalized energy efficiency rules that effectively banned incandescent light bulbs in favor of more efficient LED bulbs.
During his first term, Trump revoked water use mandates for faucets and appliances such as washing machines, dishwashers, and even toilets, allowing Americans greater freedom to choose the appliances that best fit their needs.
Biden reversed those changes, allowing the federal government to decide what appliances Americans can have in their homes.
The changes are sure to enrage many left-wing politicians, including U.S. Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), who both voted in December against a bill to stop the federal government from dictating the type of laundry machines Americans can buy.
Trump’s new directives come after the arguably larger blow he struck against left-wing environmental mandates last month with an indefinite pause on inefficient and possibly harmful wind turbine production.
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That decision is sure to affect Mainers, who under Gov. Janet Mills (D) were set to have large swaths of their coast, and even the historically untouched Sears Island, developed into wind energy farms.
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If using plastic straws and plastic grocery bags is what is going to save the world , then we have no hope . If the people of Maine think that driving electric cars and buying a heat pump will save the world , we have no hope .
We are surrounded by insanity .
I just used my last incandescent light bulb last week . I’ll be glad when I can buy more.
I personally hate the damn LED stuff .
Thanks Donald …..Keep up the good work !
love the heat from an incadesant bulb, keeps animals warm, pipes from freezing lots of uses
Thank God for Trump! Someone with comman sense!! How normal people put up the environmental wacko bullshit for so long is nuts!! This is the state of Maine!! Where sane people live! That sign should be on the turnpike in Kittery, C’mon man!
Damn right! Erase Joementia Brainfart from the nation’s consciousness!
Reverse EVERYTHING the imbicile did!
Nannies-of-the-North: Unite!
“Irks Enviros”Oh isn’t that a shame. I’ll tell you what would irk them more. Being turned into strange fruit hanging from trees. Believe anything your little heart desires, but when you start pushing your Bull$#!+ on the rest of us enough is enough. B.S. you say? Yes like thinking light bulbs with mercury is better than incandescent light bulb or thinking solar is viable without massive Gov. subsidies.
Seems to me that it was “ Barack the Magic Negro “ who banned our incandescent light bulbs .
He didn’t want us to have bulbs”: brighter than him .”
He’s another one that we don’t miss .
Anybody think I’ll be driving 50 miles to “ recycle “ an LED bulb ?
Think again .
YEAYYYYY!!!! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.
It’s nice having a POTUS who treats us like adults.
Liberals love to grab control of everything we do in our lives as if we aren’t smart enough to make our own decisions and need them to protect us from ourselves.
Look at the City Councils in this state as an example of nanny-ism
All you longtime Republicans – please eat and drink al the PFAS you can as it now is not regulated. If you know any farmers tell them you support having PFAS in their products. Now we won’t have to pay them for their loses.
Your dear leader is already releasing the illegals into your communities. ICE detention is at 109% capacity. I can’t believe you dumb infidels fell for the great round up. When you can’t buy oranges or blueberry’s come talk to me. Until then Trump lies distract from jew mass murders and gay rape of Palestinian peasant hostages.