The main problem with President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost the economy by eliminating oppressive environmental regulations is that they don’t go far enough.

Sure, his newly signed executive orders to rescinded former President Barack Obama’s clean power plan and to prohibit federal agencies from considering climate change have been important first steps.

Coupled with his appointment of the former CEO of ExxonMobil as secretary of state and a former Oklahoma attorney general who repeatedly sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take over as EPA administrator, the commander in chief appears to be fulfilling his promise to “make America great again.”

But his administration can do so much more to promote industrial growth, long hobbled by rules developed by fake scientists with encouragement from the fake media.

Here are some suggested initiatives:

♦ America is blessed with abundant deposits of precious metals, valuable minerals and coal – a veritable king’s ransom in buried treasure. Early miners merely had to blow up or dig into hilltops, but along came radical environmentalists who persuaded left-wing lawmakers to pass such ridiculous, expensive restrictions as requiring land restoration and water protection.

Get rid of those regulations and bring back good old-fashioned strip mines, so we can once again compete with China and other countries who don’t worry about such trivial issues.

♦ Nobody works harder for less money than American farmers, and yet the government continuously makes their jobs more difficult by preventing them from using the resources they so desperately need.

Once again crazy health nuts and wildlife conservationists started pushing to outlaw, one by one, all insecticides and weed killers so that eventually, virtually every shriveled string bean and misshapen ear of corn grown in the U.S. of A. will be certified organic – a code word for inedible.

Back in the day nothing worked better at keeping bugs in check than DDT, but just because some Rachel Carson types said that the chemical caused some bird eggs to crack prematurely farmers no longer could spray it on their crops.

Let’s start worrying more about two-legged creatures and less about what may or may not be ruffling a few feathers.

♦ One of this country’s greatest presidents, Calvin Coolidge, once said, “The business of America is business,” but you wouldn’t believe this based on all the things manufacturers now are ordered to do or told not to do. For instance, if you owned a chemical company you wouldn’t be allowed to simply discharge effluent directly into a nearby lake, river or ocean, as many Third-World manufacturers doubtlessly do. This is so unfair!

Once again, we’re getting ripped off. Factories should be able to get rid off all their solid, liquid or gaseous byproducts wherever and however it’s cheapest.

♦ In addition, if this country hopes to compete in the global marketplace it needs fewer Arctic wildlife refuges and more oil wells, fracking and pipelines. Why is the government always trying to stymie energy exploration with nonsensical rules, or worse, by flushing money down the toilet subsidizing such delusional schemes as wind and solar power?

♦ What better way to denounce and hopefully, dismiss with the stroke of a pen, one of America’s most asinine annual rituals: Earth Day, which takes place Saturday, April 20.

It’s hard to believe that a series of environmental teach-ins started by a bunch of hippies in 1970 has grown into an international network celebrated in 193 countries.

By the way, since fake news was mentioned earlier it should be noted that there is some truth to this notion. Not everything that finds its way into print is meant to be taken literally, including the occasional outdoor blog.