Trump's EPA announces aggressive rollback of environmental protections - PBS NewsHour
The Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the ‘biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.’ Administrator Lee Zeldin’s proposals include a call to upend the basis for the EPA's climate change actions and impact rules on emissions limits, wastewater regulations and air quality standards. Stephanie Sy discussed more with Zack Colman of Politico. - Aired on 03/13/2025.
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March 13, 2025
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin outlined an aggressive plan to dismantle the "holy grail" of climate regulation, the endangerment finding
By Jean Chemnick & E&E News
CLIMATEWIRE | EPA on Wednesday announced it was walking away from virtually every important climate policy on the books, charting an aggressive course on deregulation that will take years to complete — and compliant courts.
The agency at the center of federal climate action said it would roll back bedrock scientific findings, kill climate rules, terminate grants that are already under contract, and change how it collects and uses greenhouse gas data. Taken together, the plans would effectively remove EPA from addressing climate change at a time when global temperatures have soared to heights never experienced by humans.
“It’s Christmas in March,” said Myron Ebell, who led President Donald Trump’s 2017 EPA transition team and has long advocated for many of those policies.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin declared on the social media platform X that the agency is “initiating 31 historic actions,” including “reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy and cost Americans trillions of dollars.”
Among his announced moves is a plan to revoke the 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health — the legal predicate for all Clean Air Act climate rules. He called the finding “the holy grail of the climate change religion.” Zeldin also plans to weaken or rescind rules that were enacted to reduce climate pollution from power plants, oil and gas infrastructure and vehicles.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-epa-unveils-aggressive-plans-to-dismantle-climate-regulation/
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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin ran for governor here in New York the last time around, he represented the most RW district in the state. Fortunately, he didn't stand a chance. 