A year into Trump’s second term, critics say the EPA is rolling back dozens of protections and giving a leg up to polluters
After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise – one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars and artificial intelligence.
When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated the EPA would loosen pollution rules from sources such as cars, trucks and power plants, as part of a longstanding back and forth between administrations over how strict such standards should be.
But in recent weeks, critics say the EPA has gone far further by in effect seeking to jettison its raison d’etre, forged since its foundation in 1970, as an environmental regulator. The EPA is poised to remove its own ability to act on the climate crisis and has, separately, unveiled a new monetary worth assigned to human lives when setting air pollution regulations. The current new value? Zero.
Until these people fear for their own lives, nothing will change.
The regulatory captive EPA under a fascist regime owned by billionaires is putting business interests ahead of caring for the only fucking environment we have? SHOCKED I TELL YOU I AM SHOCKED.
It would be shameful if they actually felt any shame about it.
In other news, grass is green, birds fly, fire is hot, and water makes things wet. More at 11.
