Washington (AP) -In the so-called “following day of deregulation in American history”, the head of the environmental protection authority announced a number of measures on Wednesday to push back the environmental regulations, including rules for pollution of coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.
“We drive a dagger through the heart of the climate change religion and introduce the golden age of America,” said EPA administrator Lee Zeldin in an essay in Wall Street Journal.
His actions will eliminate trillion dollars of regulatory costs and “hidden taxes”, said Zeldin, who lowered the cost of living for American families and reduce prices for the basics such as buying a car, the warming of your house and the operation of a company.
“Our actions will also develop American production and spread the economic advantages to communities,” wrote Zeldin.
Overall, Zeldin said that he had 31 environmental rules back, including a scientific statement that has long been the central basis for US climate change against climate change.
Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support the description of the agency in 2009, which found that the heating of greenhouse gases endangers public health and well -being. The determination of the Obama era as part of the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of a variety of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other sources of pollution.
Environmentalists and climate researchers refer to the risk of finding a foundation of the US law, and say that every attempt to undo this has little chance of success.
“In view of the overwhelming science, it is impossible to believe that the EPA could develop a contradictory statement that would be on trial,” said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Defense Council for Natural Resources, an environmental group.
In a related action, Zeldin said that the EPA was a rule to restrict air pollution from fossil fireplace plants and a separate measure that limit the emissions of cars and trucks. Zeldin and the Republican President incorrectly characterize the author rules as an electric vehicle mandate.
President Joe Biden’s democratic management had stated that the rules for power plant plants would reduce pollution and improve public health and at the same time support the reliable, long -term power supply of electricity that America needs.
The EPA will also aim to limit rules that restrict the industrial pollution of mercury and other airtoxins, as well as separate rules for soot pollution and federal protection for significant areas of moisture areas.
“This is not about giving up environmental protection – it is about achieving this through innovation and not by strangulation,” wrote Zeldin. “By checking rules that have throttled oil and gas production and unfairly targeted coal-fired power plants, we ensure that American energy remains clean, affordable and reliable.”
The climate researcher of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael Mann, described the EPA campaign only the latest form of republican refusal to climate. You can no longer deny that climate change takes place, and instead you do that it is not a threat, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that this may be the greatest threat with which we are exposed to today. “
