E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’

The New York Times ^ | March 12, 2025 Updated 8:04 p.m. ET | Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi

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In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.

But beyond that, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reframed the purpose of the E.P.A. In a two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X, Mr. Zeldin boasted about the changes and said his agency’s mission is to “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”

“From the campaign trail to Day 1 and beyond, President Trump has delivered on his promise to unleash energy dominance and lower the cost of living,” Mr. Zeldin said. “We at E.P.A. will do our part to power the great American comeback.”

Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970.

The E.P.A. has “no obligation to promote agriculture or commerce; only the critical obligation to protect and enhance the environment,” the first administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, said as he explained its mission to the country weeks after the E.P.A. was created by President Richard M. Nixon. He said the agency would be focused on research, standards and enforcement in five areas: air pollution, water pollution, waste disposal, radiation and pesticides.

Mr. Zeldin said the E.P.A. would unwind more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin. It would get rid of the “good neighbor rule” that requires states to...

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Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970.

TRANSLATION: "Nowhere in the video was there disingenuous virtue signaling that pretended to care about the environment.

[Paladin2]

CO2 is a fertilizer.

[quantim]

“..greenhouse gases that are heating the planet...”

That horse has left the barn as they say, but hey anyone who reads the NYT isn’t that bright anyway.

[Paladin2]

Get food [fun juice] out of the gasoline.

[bitt]

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[Gasshog]

Love it when the NYT is suffering. Whaaaaaaa! lol.

[BobL]

“n a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks,”

No more CATALYTIC CONVERTERS!!!!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That would take hundreds of dollars of the price of new cars right off the top.

Plus thefts of catalytic converters would end.

[Sacajaweau]

Population and co2 is a balancing act....As the population grows...we need more food and more of that wonder drug...Co2.

[SpaceBar]

Central planning through decades of lefwing policies has formed a thick mucousy layer of interconnecting agencies and bureaucracy a mile thick that protects the planet in red-tape and your money.

[Trumpet 1]

Hows about a single cab light pickup truck?!

[Chode]

[lurk]

Can we set the oil company free to build more refineries.

[WildHighlander57]

How will this affect car smogg tests in CA?

[Jeff Chandler]

it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet

I think they meant that to be a bad thing.

[steve86]

Does this cover rolling back stupid appliance regulations? And HVAC?

[Big Red Badger]

CO2...
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“It’s What Plants Crave !”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember sunrays, penetrating the polluted atmosphere in the 1960s, changing their wave length and cannot get out overheating the Earth! It was called “THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT” and we all were GONNA DIE!
When that did not happen it was decided the sun rays were bouncing off the pollution layer and going to cause a NEW ICE AGE! And it was all our fault!

But We stopped THE COMING ICE AGE IN IT’S TRACKS!
From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”

AND WE DID IT! Now the cry is CO2.

[13Sisters76]

Isn’t it glorious?
Now, shut the EPA down and weld the doors shut.