Trump Changes EPA Rules to Allow Vastly More Pollution

The Trump administration is massively rolling back environmental protection policies, accelerating an already heated race to the bottom.Trump’s appointed Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced 31 regulatory changes — allegedly the “biggest deregulatory action in US history” — in an apparent effort to maximize the amount of harmful pollution generated in the United States.The changes include the removal of emissions limits for existing gas and coal-fired power plants and a rollback of limits set on toxic metal emissions of coal plants. The EPA is also looking to loosen Biden-era…

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