02:18USA: Trump slams Obama’s ‘wasteful regulations’ as he repeals coal mining protection
Mike, coal miner (English): "President Trump we would like to thank you very much for everything you have done for us, everything you are doing for our industry is very much needed, I have been mining in this industry for 40 years and this is a very exciting time for our industry, thank you very much"
Donald Trump, US President (English): "Tell them where you're from Mike?
Mike, coal miner (English): "I'm from Morgantown, West Virginia but I work at [inaudible] coal company"
Donald Trump, US President (English): "How did I do in that area?"
Mike, coal miner (English): "Oh you did great!"
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US President Donald Trump signed a repeal to reverse former-US President Barack Obama's coal mining regulation, intended to guard waterways from coal mining waste, at the White House on Thursday.
Trump described the US Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule as one of the "wasteful regulations" that did "nothing, absolutely nothing but slow down the economy, hamstring companies" and "push jobs to other countries”.
Trump said Obama’s rule was a “major threat to your jobs” which he was "eliminating".
This is the second rule from the former administration that Trump has overwritten in the past week.
On Tuesday, the President repealed a regulation demanding extraction companies report their payments to foreign governments over production activities.
02:18Mike, coal miner (English): "President Trump we would like to thank you very much for everything you have done for us, everything you are doing for our industry is very much needed, I have been mining in this industry for 40 years and this is a very exciting time for our industry, thank you very much"
Donald Trump, US President (English): "Tell them where you're from Mike?
Mike, coal miner (English): "I'm from Morgantown, West Virginia but I work at [inaudible] coal company"
Donald Trump, US President (English): "How did I do in that area?"
Mike, coal miner (English): "Oh you did great!"
*JUMP CUT AT SOURCE*
US President Donald Trump signed a repeal to reverse former-US President Barack Obama's coal mining regulation, intended to guard waterways from coal mining waste, at the White House on Thursday.
Trump described the US Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule as one of the "wasteful regulations" that did "nothing, absolutely nothing but slow down the economy, hamstring companies" and "push jobs to other countries”.
Trump said Obama’s rule was a “major threat to your jobs” which he was "eliminating".
This is the second rule from the former administration that Trump has overwritten in the past week.
On Tuesday, the President repealed a regulation demanding extraction companies report their payments to foreign governments over production activities.