Trump Did Well on the Environment and Saved Americans Money in the Process

American Thinker ^ | 01/28/2021 | Kevin Mooney

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There is a big untold story over the last four years of the Trump administration that involves unelected bureaucrats who suffocated America's energy industry under President Barack Obama before they were corralled and brought to heel by President Donald Trump's EPA.

Lost in the news coverage of the Capitol Hill riots on Jan. 6 and the inauguration of a new president is a remarkable record of achievement on energy and environmental policy by President Trump.  Over the past four years, Trump's Environmental Protection Agency demonstrated that it is possible to alleviate the regulatory burden on average citizens and private businesses while improving air quality and cleaning up hazardous waste.

Recently, the agency released a "2020 Year in Review" documenting some of the most significant and enduring achievements of the Trump years.  And yet, Google searches that make use of "Trump," "deregulation," "Year in Review," or any close approximation to those words and phrases fail to produce any reference to the report and its major takeaways.  There are several that deserve scrutiny for the benefit of posterity.

What a hostile press and its Big Tech allies are working to suppress in the current news cycle will be available for policymakers, political scientists, and historians to compare and contrast with the record of the new administration.  Among the list of accomplishments that have gone largely unheralded is the fact that the Trump team finalized 78 deregulatory actions saving the American people roughly $99 billion.  What's remarkable here is that the agency actually surpassed the "two-for-one" deregulatory goal of a Trump executive order that called for two deregulatory actions for every new regulation that was issued.

Here are some pertinent details taken from the "Year in the Review" report:

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Joe’s Environment Czar Horse-face Kerry will fix everything

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Kerry will get us caught up on the payments to their cronies.

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Since January 2017, EPA has finalized more than five deregulatory actions for every new final regulatory action. In calendar year 2020 alone, EPA finalized 28 deregulatory actions, saving Americans an estimated $92 billion in regulatory costs. EPA has an additional 32 deregulatory actions in development expected to save billions more.