Cheney still pushing hard to gut our energy and environmental regulations

Even with only a few months to go in his reign of terror, Darth Vader never phones it in. He just keeps blasting away.

In August, the Post headlined the story, “Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Is Up for Energy Post,” noting that the “promotion that would put one of the administration’s most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of forming department policies on climate change.”

It’s not like we have any recent evidence that regulations are needed for maintaining the health and well-being of Americans.

F. Chase Hutto III has played a prominent behind-the-scenes role in shaping the administration’s environmental policies for several years, the officials said, helping to rewrite rules affecting the air that Americans breathe and the waters that oil tankers traverse. In every instance, according to both his allies and opponents, he has challenged proposals that would place additional regulations on industry.

The good news is that the Senate isn’t gonna give him the job. The bad news is, it doesn’t matter. As E&E Daily reports this morning:

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