Promising to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday outlined plans for an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations.
#EPA #environment #NoProtection
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/epa-rollback-environmental-regulations-zeldin-rcna196112
2/ Today marks the death of the Green New Scam,” Zeldin wrote in The Wall Street Journal, arguing that his deregulation plan would create an environment where “businesses can thrive and infrastructure can be built.” He added that he wants to reassess rules that, in his view, “throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants,” and suggested that his proposed actions would roll back “trillions of dollars in regulatory costs.”
@SherBeareth New GOP EPA head wants to create an environment where all creatures that breathe will not survive #FossilFuels #GOP #Pollution
@impy Drill Baby Spill. There isn’t enough enough Dawn Dish Liquid in the world to clean up their impending mess.
They must think Canada has spare land available to pirate and trash after they decimate our environment.
@SherBeareth Yes! also, Drill Baby Burn
@Snowshadow Exactly. How much progress can the MAGA undo in weeks?
Taking into consideration the size of the US population, the impact of reducing or eliminating environmental protections will be enormous and the damage done irreversible in many cases, not to mention the consequences on everyone's health. People of all ages will have shorter life spans.
@SherBeareth oh, is it infrastructure week?
And by the way, businesses were thriving in the US even with all the regulation they hate.
The results will be catastrophic.