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by trimethylpurine 276 days ago
The actual rules went into enforcement in the very early part of Biden's term. They have to go back and forth with Congress, and since it involves the military, drafts would be secret or classified.

You can see, per Congress's orders, Trump's EPA would have authored the rules before Biden's term. They were ordered by the PFAS Action Act of 2019.

So while the rules weren't officially enforced during Trump's term, we can deduce that they were drafted and in motion under Andrew Wheeler's EPA, the same one Biden left in office into 2021!

That is to say, Trump's EPA guy wrote them and saw them into enforcement.

That all really is available from the citation I gave. The date is there. You can Google Wheeler's term. You can see when the rules went into effect. You for sure know rules take time to write.

You really didn't think to ask these questions? Honestly, I don't believe you.

You weren't trying to find that you were wrong like I recommended. You were trying to find that the citation by itself could be dead ended to disprove my point if you simply ceased your search.

Think about it for a few minutes and really be honest with yourself. I'm right, not just about you. That's just normal human behavior.

That's okay, but I don't think it's snarky to assume you're also human.