1. How did the Obama Administration prepare for the Trump Administration's plans for the EPA? Obama knew Trump would try to dismantle his energy policies, so he tried to pass as many regulations before he leaves office.
2. What does Trump have to do to policies that Obama enacted by Executive Order instead of Congressional action? To reverse Obama's executive orders, he just have to pass some of his own, and besides it is easier to override the executive orders than congressional decisions, because congress hard to please.
3, What policies did Obama's Administration pass through the rule making process and what does Trump have to do to get rid of these? Obama passed many fuel economy standards, the Clean Power Plan, and rules on pollution. To reverse these rules, the Trump administration has to restart the formal rule making process, and rewrite his policies, notifying the public, and justify the changes to everyone.
4. What history does Trump's pick for head of the EPA have with the agency? Trump's pick is an Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has sued Obama's EPA a lot (but luckily to no avail). But by placing him in this position, he's probably going to change everything.
5. What is the main way that Congress can limit the effectiveness of the EPA? Using the Congressional Review Act, they can probably stop certain restrictions Obama has put into place, but since it requires majority vote in both houses, they won't resort to it. They could also cut off the EPA's fundings.
6. How could Trump and Congress alter the future of all EPA rule making? (What would the REINS act do?) The REINS act can restrict EPA regulations some more, and then all their policies and stuff must go through the government to be approved.
7. Based on what you know about environmental protection and Congress - what do you think the impact of this would be if it were to pass? Congress would definitely get more inefficient, and they will reverse many of the thing Obama advocated for because of their ideology, and due to Republican majority in both houses, it'll be so hard for EPA policies to succeed. The two parties will clash.
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