Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say | Trump administration
Three predecessors Environmental Protection Agency The leaders seemed to be alert on Friday, saying that the declines proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency official, Lee Zeladen, were at risk to the lives of millions of Americans and abandoned the task of the dual agency for environmental protection and human health.
Zeldeen said on Wednesday that he intends to decline 31 main environmental bases on everything from clean air to clean water and climate change. The director of the former Environmental Protection Agency, Jenna McCarthy, described Zealin’s advertisement as “the most catastrophic day in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
McCarthy, who served under two democratic administrations, was repeated by two former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency who served during the Republican presidents.
William K Rille, who led the agency during the era of President George HW Bush and played a major role in amending the fair air law in 1990.
“What this administration is doing is to endanger all our lives – our children and our grandchildren,” added Christine Todd Wittman, who led the Environmental Protection Agency during the era of President George W. Bush. “We all deserve to have clean air and clean water. If there is a discovery that can be found anywhere, it must be found in this administration because what they do contradict what is around the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Yumman was referring to one of the main procedures announced by Zealin: To reconsider a scientific discovery that greenhouse gases aimed at the planet showcase public health and luxury. The 2009 Agency’s discovery was the legal basis for most American measures against climate change, including car regulations, power stations and other pollution sources.
Environmental scientists and climate scientists call at risk to find a standing basis of American law and say any attempt to back down will not have a chance to succeed.
Yumman and the other previous agency said they were amazed Trump administration So you will try to back down from the result and a set of other agency rules. If approved, al -Qaeda changes may cause “severe damage” to the environment, public health and economy.
“It seems that this Environmental Protection Agency official now meets the offer of fossil fuel industry more than compliance with the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency,” said McCarthy, who led the agency during the era of President Barack Obama, and was a great climate consultant for President Joe Biden.
McCarthy and the other two retired infoines stressed that protecting the environment and economic prosperity was not mutual exclusive, saying that strong regulations have enabled a cleaner environment and an increasing economy since the agency’s foundation 55 years ago.
A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, Molly Vasilio, said a spokesman, Donald Trump “Advanced memorization and environmental supervision while strengthening the economic growth of families throughout the country” in its first term “and this will continue to do this.”
Trump, who described climate change as a trick, has declined more than 100 environmental laws in his first term as president. He carried a promise to “drill, child, drilling” and pledged to alleviate the regulations on fossil fuel companies. During his current term, he freezed money for climate programs and other environmental spending, as scientists working in national weather service and reducing federal support for renewable energy launched.
Riley said that he is afraid that Zealin and Trump, who are affected by billionaire Elon Musk and the government cutting agency, would return to the pre -EPA when the industry was free to pollute almost at the will, and fill the air in many cities with smoky fog and dangerous rivers.
“I wonder if the quarrels will give us more burning rivers,” Riley said. The suspension was a reference to a notorious incident in 1969 in which the Cleveland Quichewa River caught, which sparked the approval of the federal clean water law and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency a year later during the administration of Republican President Richard Nixon.
Former Environmental Protection Agency officials published an article in the New York Times last month of potential environmental damage because the Trump administration imposes a freezing of financing, spending spending and launching more than a thousand employees. In a statement on Friday, they said that the plan to retreat from environmental rules “puts the country in a cycle that causes irreparable harm to Americans and companies and environmental protection efforts at the country level.”
McCarthy said that the regulations are difficult to make – on this purpose. “They are difficult. They take a lot of effort, and for this reason I think most of us scratch our heads about the reason we really want to rethink what was working mainly.”
Zeldin said in the announcement of the base changes that Trump officials “lead a dagger in the heart of the climate change religion and take the golden age of America.”
Among the changes are plans to rewrite a base that restricts air pollution from fossil fuel power plants and a separate evaluation that restricts emissions of cars and trucks. Zilden and the Republican president are incorrectly describing the car base as an “authorization” electric vehicle.
The Biden Democratic Administration said that the rules of the power plant will reduce pollution and improve public health while supporting trusted supply in the long term from the electricity that America needs. Biden, who made climate change, has made a top priority of his presidency, that half of all new cars and trucks sold in the United States will be zero by 2030.
The Environmental Protection Agency will also target the rules that restrict the industrial pollution of mercury and other air toxins, soot pollution and the “Good Neighborhood” base aimed at restricting smokers that mill areas towards the wind with the smoky fog. Zilden targeted a law for clean water that provides federal protection for rivers, tables and wetlands.
Environmentalists have pledged to fight changes, which a group said would lead to “the largest increase in pollution in contracts in the United States.
