What’s Up With the Newest Presidential Executive Order?

What’s Up With the Newest Presidential Executive Order?

By Catherine J. Frompovich

August 12, 2016, Barack Hussein Obama, the 43^rd or 44^th (some question the number) President of the United States, signed Presidential Executive Order No. 13737 “Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency,” which revoked his previous PEO 13614 (May 21, 2012).

Here’s the link to PEO 13737 published in the Federal Register, August 17, 2016.

Section 2 c in the August 12^th PEO has some language that raises a red flag of sorts:

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the President retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this order in designating an acting Administrator.