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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

More like EPA CANCELS it’s mission 🤔

NYTimes: “The E.P.A. Shifts Its Mission”

In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.

#EPA #LeeZeldin #idiocracy
nytimes.com/2025/03/13/climate

Text Shot: Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970. The E.P.A. has “no obligation to promote agriculture or commerce; only the critical obligation to protect and enhance the environment,” the first administrator, William D. Ruckelshaus, said as he explained its mission to the country weeks after the E.P.A. was created by President Richard M. Nixon. He said the agency would be focused on research, standards and enforcement in five areas: air pollution, water pollution, waste disposal, radiation and pesticides.
E.P.A. Administrator Lee Zeldin on a television news screen in the window of the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.
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Nonilex

The order by US Dist Judge #Chutkan prevents—for now—the #EPA from ending the $20B #grant program.

Chutkan's order also blocks #Citibank, which holds the money on behalf of the EPA, from transferring the money back to the govt or anyone.

#ClimateUnitedFund & other groups sued #Trump’s EPA, its admin #LeeZeldin & Citibank, saying they had illegally denied the groups access to $14B awarded last year through the #GreenhouseGas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a “green bank."

#law#climate
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump’s #EPA clearly shows it doesn’t understand the assignment
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on #air and #water #pollution.
#LeeZeldin exulted over the plan to rescind EPA’s 16yo determination #greenhousegas is a danger to #publichealth and welfare, known as #endangermentfinding
Zeldin announced EPA would revise a key definition that guides environmental protection under #CleanWaterAct, a change advocates say would threaten water supplies for millions in #US
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Trump’s EPA clearly shows it doesn’t understand the assignmentBy Inside Climate News
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Nonilex

In a statement, #LeeZeldin suggested that #EnvironmentalJustice — which the #EPA defined in 2013 as “the fair treatment & meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income” w/respect to #EnvironmentalLaw — was tantamount to discrimination. [BS]

“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people,” [wrong] Zeldin said. “Part of this mandate includes the elimination of *forced* discrimination programs.”

#law#PublicHealth#HealthEquity
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Nonilex

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin intends to eliminate #EPA offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of #pollution facing #poor communities, acc/to a memo from #LeeZeldin, the agency administrator.

In the internal memo, viewed by NYT, Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization & elimination” of the offices of #EnvironmentalJustice at all 10 EPA regional offices as well as the one in Washington.

#law #HealthEquity #Climate #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate

The New York Times · E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice OfficesBy Lisa Friedman
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Nonilex

After some #FederalAgencies told their employees not to respond because of national security concerns, Musk now says employees could simply say they’re working on #classified matters.

#Musk refused to share how many federal jobs they are seeking to eliminate, saying he wants to keep people who are doing *good work* in *essential* roles. [presumably by his & Trump’s metrics]

#Trump said that #LeeZeldin, the new #EPA administrator, plans to cut up to 65% of his employees 💔.

#USpol #Cabinet 🧵

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Nonilex

On the 1st day of his 2nd term, #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder that tasked the #EPA w/reviewing the “legality & continuing applicability of” the #endangerment finding. The order gave #LeeZeldin 30 days to submit recommendations to #RussVought, the head of #OMB [& #Project2025 architect].

…Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff at the end of Trump’s 1st term & wrote the EPA chpt in the conservative #Project2025, has been advising the admin on repealing the finding….

#Climate
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Nonilex

*EPA tells White House* [flip that] to strike down landmark climate finding

#Trump’s EPA Admin #LeeZeldin has privately urged the WH to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal govt’s push to combat #ClimateChange, acc/to 3 people….

The 2009 “endangerment finding” cleared the way for regulating #GreenhouseGases under the #CleanAirAct by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to #PublicHealth & welfare.

#law #regulations #science
washingtonpost.com/climate-env

The Washington Post · EPA urges White House to strike down landmark climate findingBy Maxine Joselow
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Senate Confirms #LeeZeldin to Head #EPA where hes charged with executing Trump’s orders to dismantle #environmental #regulation
Former NY congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken #climate rules. One rule, finalized last year, would cut #tailpipe #emissions of #greenhousegas, nation’s largest source of planet-warming #pollution, by compelling #automakers to increase sales of hybrid and EV.
nytimes.com/2025/01/29/climate
archive.ph/ZzEcb

The New York Times · Senate Confirms Lee Zeldin to Head E.P.A.By Coral Davenport
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump Taps Fossil Fuel Ally Lee Zeldin to Head EPA, Push “Anti-Environmental Agenda”
democracynow.org/2024/11/13/ep

* environmental defenders raising alarm over Trump’s EPA pick
* fmr NY Congressmember Lee Zeldin
* history of opposing environmental protections/clean energy jobs
* Trump reportedly moving EPA headquarters out of Washington D.C.
* could lead to exodus of staff/expertise

#AFPI #ClimateDenial
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #LeeZeldin #EPA
#billionaires #TimDunn #CharlesKoch #libertarianism

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