EPA To Roll Back Dozens Of Regulations

Monday, March 17, 2025

In what he called the "most consequential day of deregulation in American history," the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles. "We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America's Golden Age, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an essay in The Wall Street Journal.

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... "We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America's Golden Age, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an essay in The Wall Street Journal. ...

Back when I was in my earlier ages, I remember going outside to play and my eyes would burn from the air.

We kids at the time used to note the "ring around the horizon," i.e., the brown ring that was around the horizon due to the pollution.

Now, Pres Trump's EPA wants to shove a dagger through all the gains toward breathable air that have been accomplished since the 60's and 70's ring around the horizon."

Why?

Because the clean air regulations cost corporations money to comply?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-17 09:33 PM | Reply

Tanning was better with an open ozone layer.

-- Agent Orange cultists

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-17 09:35 PM | Reply

Happy Extinction, Magat Scum

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-17 09:48 PM | Reply

Apparently clean air and clean water are overrated. Typical ignorant buffoons.

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-03-17 09:49 PM | Reply

I'm pretty sure golden age is code for gilded age.

These pieces of s*^% know it's as much a facade as everything else tacky a&$ Trump touches.

They know the rubes are too ignorant to realize they're being told other faces what's going to happen to them.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-17 09:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I love the assumption that each and every regulation on the books is great.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-18 04:39 PM | Reply

I love the assumption that each and every regulation on the books is great.

#6 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER A

There's no sane and intelligent evaluation of regulations going on.

There's illegal activity by outlaws and vandals

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-18 04:48 PM | Reply

Zed,

Are you saying ending some regulations is an illegal activity?

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-18 04:55 PM | Reply

Of course Flint Water Jeff is pro-pollution.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-18 04:58 PM | Reply

Are you saying ending some regulations is an illegal activity?

#8 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Not when Congress does it.

But you know that; just as you know who the vandals and criminals are.

You never quite get on the righteous side of anything.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-18 04:59 PM | Reply

"Not when Congress does it."

Are you aware that new regulations are written all of the time without any input from Congress?

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-18 05:29 PM | Reply

"Are you aware that new regulations are written all of the time without any input from Congress?"

Incorrect.
Stop lying.
Congress provided input when they created the rule-making bodies.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 05:32 PM | Reply

Zed was stating that removing regulations is an illegal act. It's no more illegal than when these agencies create new regulations.

And quit being so pedantic. You know what I meant - regulations are written all of the time without consulting Congress. Does that verbiage satisfy you?

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-18 10:01 PM | Reply

It makes complete sense that an independent agency should be the only ones who make policy such as the EPA. You don't want nor champion political Congress critters that are bought off by the same corporations and entities that need regulating. You'll wind up with places like Picher Oklahoma and a mile and a quarter as the crow fly northwest Treece Kansas.

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-03-18 10:29 PM | Reply

" You know what I meant - regulations are written all of the time without consulting Congress. "

Are you aware of a phrase, commonly used in the English language,
"It shouldn't take an Act of Congress..."
Assuming you are, then you should understand this phrase exists because Congress delegates authority as matter of course, and doesn't have to be consulted on every rule change that is put into place within the Federal millieu.

You didn't understand that when you argued the Consumer Financial Protection Agency is unconstitutional, by the way.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 11:18 PM | Reply

I said that it's structure is unconstitutional - it is not accountable to Congress or the Executive. If it were accountable to one or the other I wouldn't argue that it's unconstitutional.

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-18 11:31 PM | Reply

"...it is not accountable to Congress or the Executive."

Not accountable?!? Congress created it. They "accounted" for it. And when?

In Dodd-Frank. You know, the bill to curb banking abuses. And they reasoned, correctly, if left up to Congress, they'd die on the vine.

Pretty accurate fear, I'd say.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-03-18 11:38 PM | Reply