Toxic America: The Cost of Deregulation
The Mary Trump Podcast
Mary Trump Media
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In the past sixteen months, the Trump regime has dismantled environmental and public health protections affecting public land, air quality, climate oversight, and disaster preparedness. The administration frames the changes as deregulation and economic growth. Critics argue the result is the transfer of public resources and long-term costs from industry onto the public. This script examines the policy changes, the stated rationale behind them, and the measurable impacts already projected by scientists, regulators, and public health researchers.
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| 0:00.0 | I know that one of your key missions here at the EPA, and I would say for the entire administration has been deregulation. |
| 0:18.0 | And one of those deregulations, maybe the biggest of them all, we heard about |
| 0:23.4 | fairly recently, you've rescinded the Obama era endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. |
| 0:29.7 | What do Americans need to understand about what this means for them? Well, for one, new vehicles |
| 0:35.1 | will become $2,400 more affordable just on this one act alone. |
| 0:39.2 | Wow. |
| 0:39.7 | The largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States, a total of $1.3 trillion |
| 0:45.8 | worth of savings, getting rid of the endangerment finding, all greenhouse gas emission standards |
| 0:51.3 | on light, medium and heavy duty vehicles, all of the off-cycle credits, including the one for the start-stop feature. It's a big act, and this is another example |
| 0:59.0 | where President Trump got sworn in and instantly signed an executive order to get rolling. Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. |
| 1:20.2 | In the past 16 months, the Trump regime has moved to dismantle environmental and public health protections at a scale |
| 1:29.6 | never before seen in modern American history. Federal protections covering public lands, air pollution, |
| 1:37.8 | climate oversight, disaster preparedness have been weakened, delayed, or eliminated. |
| 1:45.0 | And that includes just general environmental monitoring as well. |
| 1:49.0 | The administration describes the effort as deregulation and energy expansion. |
| 1:56.0 | Critics argue, however, the long-term costs are being shifted from industries onto the public, |
| 2:04.1 | which is to say us. On May 13th, Representative Jared Huffman recently accused the Trump regime |
| 2:11.0 | of treating public lands and natural resources as assets for private industry and political allies. |
| 2:19.2 | President Trump is gutting funding and personnel in the agencies that manage our public lands, |
| 2:24.4 | ordering what's left of the beleaguered National Park Service staff to whitewash history, |
| 2:29.8 | shutting down projects that are ready to bring cheap, reliable clean energy to millions of families |
| 2:35.1 | who are struggling with skyrocketing utility bills and bullying the offshore wind industry |
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