Lee Zeldin wasn't always hostile to climate regulation.

When he was just a Republican congressman from Long Island,

Zeldin was open to finding solutions to the crisis.

In 2019, he even joined Democrats to stop an amendment

that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of some of its power.

But ever since President Donald Trump appointed him as the head of that agency, Zeldin has

taken a slash and burn approach.

The EPA issued sweeping climate and environmental rollbacks, 31 separate actions in a span of

two hours.

According to Zeldin, the EPA is, in his words, reconsidering

wastewater regulations for the power plants and will quote, update coal ash regulations.

On Tuesday, the agency came out with plans for another rollback that could transform the fight

against climate change.

If finalized, today's announcement would amount to the largest deregulatory action in the

history of the United States.

Selden says they want to repeal a key scientific finding that has been the underpinning

of several significant pollution regulations over the last 16 years. We want to hear from the American public to finalize a regulation that not only proposes

to rescind the endangerment finding, but all greenhouse gas emissions that followed on light, medium,

and heavy duty vehicles.

The move will face public comments and legal challenges, but if it does get finalized,

climate experts say it would be a game changer, but not in a good way.

It has some asking, what's left of the EPA if you take the protection part out of it?

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