The winning continues apace: On Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the EPA will be undertaking what is liable to be the largest deregulation effort in American history – for now. Watch:
The effort was also described on the EPA’s website.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will undertake 31 historic actions in the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history, to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. Combined, these announcements represent the most momentous day in the history of the EPA. While accomplishing EPA’s core mission of protecting the environment, the agency is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, lower cost of living for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions.
“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen. We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin.
“Alongside President Trump, we are living up to our promises to unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, and work hand-in-hand with our state partners to advance our shared mission,” added EPA Administrator Zeldin.
There is a list of proposed actions at the link, but let’s just look at a few:
- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0)
- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c)
- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS)
This is good news for the energy sector, good for energy prices, and therefore good for the American economy, in which everything is downstream from energy. And note that these are under reconsideration,” not “elimination,” as it’s unlikely that mercury and air toxics standards, for instance, will be going away. There are some legitimate limits to some things. Cutting the power plants and the oil and gas industries free, though, should be done to the greatest extent possible. There are plenty of folks here in the Great Land looking up to the North Slope and hoping for a bunch of new jobs. It’s a certainty that applies anywhere and everywhere that extraction is or can take place.
Now, here’s a great one for “termination.”
- Terminating Biden’s Environmental Justice and DEI arms of the agency (EJ/DEI)
Once again, the left sticks the word “justice” on the end of a random word, and suddenly, it’s a social issue requiring immediate, frantic action, but the Trump administration and Administrator Zeldin aren’t having any of it. These departments were not only irrelevant to the EPA’s core function, but they were and are the stuff you’d find behind the south end of a northbound bull, and deserve to be treated the same way – scooped up and tossed out as fertilizer.
- Ending so-called “Good Neighbor Plan” which the Biden-Harris Administration used to expand federal rules to more states and sectors beyond the program’s traditional focus and led to the rejection of nearly all State Implementation Plans
By “beyond the program’s traditional focus,” they mean “beyond any pretense of the organization’s constitutional boundaries, assuming the Biden administration has even read the Constitution.” This is a violation of federalism, and as above, deserves to be excised. This is another example, not only of leftist horse squeeze but of the Democratic Party’s non-stop efforts to centralize all control in DC instead of in the states; they have, apparently, never heard of federalism – or they simply don’t care.
It’s all about control for the left. It’s always about control. But that control will be harder for them to hang on to now.
See Related: Lee Zeldin Takes Chainsaw to DEI Funding at EPA, Announces Billions in Cuts
Supreme Court Dials Back EPA’s Use of Subjective Standards to Impose Fines and Penalties
There’s a lot more at the link above.
It’s a new day at the EPA. It’s a new day all over the United States, and in a year, the amount of wasteful spending and onerous regulation will be greatly reduced – maybe even to livable levels. But Congress is going to have to act to make a lot of this permanent, so let’s not get too happy just yet; we have a couple more election cycles ahead that will be key to sustaining this momentum.
But we’ll still take good news when and where we find it.
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