
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…