Washington – in what he called “the most consistent day of deregulation in the history of America”, boss Environmental Protection Agency He announced a series of activities on Wednesday to withdraw groundbreaking environmental regulations, including the principles of contamination of coal power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.
“We run a dagger in the heart of a religion changing the climate and introducing the golden age of America.” EPA LEE ZELDIN Administrator he said in the essay in Wall Street Journal.
The activities of the Trump administration will eliminate billions of dollars in terms of regulatory costs and “hidden taxes,” Zeldin said, reducing the costs of life of American families and reducing the prices of such necessary things as buying a car, heating the house and running a company.
“Our activities will also disseminate American production, distributing economic benefits for the community,” he wrote. “Energy domination stands in the center of the Rebirth of America.”
In total, Zeldin said he would withdraw 31 rules of the environments climate change.
Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support Rewriting the discovery of the Agency in 2009 This planets enveloping greenhouse gases threaten public health and prosperity. Determining from the time of Obama under the Clean Air Act is a legal basis for a lot of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other sources of pollution.
Environmentalists and climate scientists call a threat, finding the basis of US law and say that every attempt to go back will have little chance of success.
“In the face of overwhelming science, one cannot think that EPA may develop a contradictory finding that will stand in court,” said David Doniger, climate expert at Natural Resources Defense Council, a group of the environment.
In the related operation, Zeldin said that EPA is rewriting the limiting rule Air pollution from fossil fuel burned power plants and a separate measure Limiting emissions from cars and trucks. Zeldin and the Republican president incorrectly defines the car’s principle “electric vehicle mandate”.
The democratic administration of President Joe Biden said that the power plant rules will reduce pollution and improve public health, while supporting the reliable, long -term supply of electricity that America needs.
Biden, which fought with climate change The characteristic sign of his presidencyHe cited the car’s principle as a key factor of what he called “historical progress” on his promise that half of all novel cars and trucks sold in the US will be zero emission until 2030.
EPA will also strive for principles limiting industrial contamination of mercury and other aviation toxins, as well as separate principles regarding soot pollution and Federal security for significant areas of wetlandsZeldin said on Wednesday. EPA has also completed its programs of diversity, justice and inclusion and there will be a shutter of part of the agency focused on environmental justice. The effort sought to improve conditions in areas heavily burdened with industrial pollution, mainly in low -income and majority or Latin communities.
“It’s not about abandoning environmental protection – it’s about achieving it through innovation, not suffocation,” wrote Zeldin. “Re -considering the principles that choked oil and gas production and unjust -targeted carbon power plants, we ensure that American energy remains clean, inexpensive and reliable.”
A scientist from the University of Pennsylvania Michael Mann called EPA “the latest form of republican climate denial. They can no longer deny climate change, so instead they pretend that this is not a threat, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, that it may be the greatest threat we are struggling with today. “
The directive to re -consider the statement of threat and other EPA rules was the recommendation of the 2025 project, the conservative plan of the second term of Trump. Russell Vought, director of the White House Management and Budget Office and the co -author of the 2025 project, called the actions long ago.
“EPA climate regulation affects the entire national economy – jobs, wages and family budgets, said on Wednesday.
“The ignorance of Trump’s administration is pierced only by her malice towards the planet,” replied Jason Rylander, legal director at the Institute of Climatic Law of the Center for Biological Diversity. “Come to hell and high water, raging fires and deadly heat waves, Trump and his buddies are inclined in polluting profits before people’s lives.”
Re -considering the statement of threat and other actions “will not become in court,” said Rylander. “We will fight it at every step.”
The United States is second largest contaminating coal in the world, after China and the largest Historical emitter greenhouse gases.
Transfer to solve environmental staff in order to resolve the action last week to abandon the case against Petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing the risk of cancer in most black community. Zeldin called justice an environmental term, which “was used primarily as an excuse for financing leftist activists instead of actually speaking of these dollars to directly fixing environmental problems for these communities.”
Matthew Tejada, who once managed the EPA justice office, said that Trump and Zeldin “take us back to the times of unrestricted pollution throughout the country, leaving every American exposed to toxic chemicals, sullied air and contaminated water.” Tytadada is now working in the GDR.
Anne Bradbury, General Director of the American Exploration & Production Council, the oil industry group, leaned with Zeldin’s actions and said that the USA is “stronger and safer when we are dominant in energy.”
Its group has long required changes in EPA rules, so they are “feasible, effective and are based on significant reductions of emissions” made by oil and gas producers, said Bradbury. “We support the update of these rules so that the American people can continue to utilize inexpensive, reliable and immaculate American energy.”
New Jersey representative Frank Pallone, the highest democrat at House Energy and Commerce Committee, called Zeldin’s actions “the wicked betrayal of the American nation.”
Every day more and more Americans lose their jobs, houses and Even their lives to deteriorate climate disastersPallone said. Trump and Zeldin “mock these people in pain,” said Pallone, adding that “he will have quick and catastrophic consequences for the environment and health of all Americans.”
