This article was originally published here. The damning leak of Donald Trump confirming on a hot mic what every woman already knew — Trump is the egotistical pervert whom you avoid at cocktail parties — puts him in a bruised position and makes Hillary Clinton’s victory more likely. If Clinton wins the presidential race, the question is whether she’d work with Republicans, as her husband tended to, or simply continue President Barack Obama’s path of leftward isolationism, enabled through his executive overreach. On environmental policy, for example, Obama has been particularly uncompromising in his war on coal and his pursuit of “green energy,” which has resulted in the worst forms of crony capitalism (see: Solyndra) as well as a string of anti-fracking and other regulations that have since been struck down by the courts. For imagining a Hillary Clinton White House, let’s consider a simple, reasonable policy test case: a clear, focused bill introduced in 2015 by Republican Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri that would increase the length of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit cycle from five to 20 years. The proposed legislation would give municipalities more time to finance required environmental improvements (while still making them on…
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