U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on March 12, made what he called the “largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”
In a video published by the agency, he said the EPA would take steps to roll back 31 regulations to fulfill President Donald Trump’s “promise to unleash American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to the states.”
Zeldin’s actions presage formal moves to repeal EPA regulations that would exert pressure on Americans to buy low-emission electric vehicles and other significant actions targeting many previously published federal climate and pollution rules....