Donald Trump’s administration gave a great blow to announce a mass dismantling of the environmental regulations established under the presidency of Joe Biden on Wednesday. Lee Zeldin, head of the American Agency for American Protection (EPA), described this day as “bigger and more substantial in the history of the United States” in terms of deregulation.
In the heart of these ads, the cancellation of a rule adopted in 2024 that imposed the coal power plants and the new gas power plants to eliminate almost all its CO2 emissions by 2032, under closing penalty. A decision qualified as “colossal” by environmental organizations, which recalls that this measure would have allowed the issue of 1.4 billion tons of CO2 by 2047, the equivalent of annual emissions of 328 million cars.
White letter for pollINATORS
“Polluting companies rejoice today”, …