Shitstain's EPA: 66 Environmental Rollbacks In One Year: "I Am For Whatever President Trump Is Advocating For"
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The EPA under its current administrator, Lee Zeldin, has zealously followed this lead – initiating 66 environmental rollbacks in the first year, according to a tally compiled by green group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). This list includes paring back limits on pollutants such as mercury and soot coming from cars and power plants, cancelling grants for renewables and aid for communities blighted by toxins, squashing clean water protections and deleting mentions of the climate crisis from the EPA website.
Two particular reversals have shocked former EPA staff and could fundamentally transform the agency. Last year, the agency announced it would rescind the so-called “endangerment finding”, a landmark 2009 determination affirmed by the supreme court and outside experts that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide harm human health. Removing the finding would essentially demolish all climate-related regulations issued by the federal government, a move cheered by pro-fossil fuel companies and Republican-led states that have urged Trump to take drastic action to remove any restraints on global heating.
Then, this month, the EPA said that it would no longer consider the cost to human health from two common air pollutants – but still weigh the cost paid by industry for regulatory compliance. This will hide the outsized economic as well as health benefits of reducing pollution – the EPA had previously calculated that reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, harmful to lung, heart, and brain functions when inhaled, would deliver $77 in benefits for every $1 spent by businesses to comply.
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Instead, the EPA chief has said he wants to thrust “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion”, called for a revival of coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, and demanded drivers opt for gasoline, rather than cleaner electric, cars. In a novel move for an environmental regulator, Zeldin has even taken it upon himself to ensure that “making the United States the artificial intelligence capital of the world” is a core priority for his agency. When asked on Fox in September whether he agreed with Trump’s attempt to shut down clean energy projects, Zeldin replied: “I am for whatever President Trump is advocating for.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/trump-epa-environmental-rollbacks