Trump EPA Moves to Gut Health and Safety Regulations
Earthjustice to defend against attacks on clean air, water, and healthy communities
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Alexandria Trimble, atrimble@earthjustice.org
Today, Lee Zeldin, head of the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced plans to roll back 31 public health and safety regulations and initiatives that are backed by science and the law.
Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice President, released the following statement in response:
“These safeguards help make communities cleaner, healthier and safer. The Trump administration seems determined to take us back to a time when our air was so polluted it was unsafe to breathe, and our waters were so toxic they caught on fire. They are telling us that greenhouse gas pollution doesn’t cause harm but ask any climate disaster victim if they feel safer adding more carbon pollution into the air.
“They are putting lives and livelihoods at risk so that the fossil fuel and chemical industries don’t have to control their pollution, which ignores the very science Administrator Zeldin said he would listen to. Should the EPA undo settled law and irrefutable facts, we expect to see this administration in court.”
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