Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders sounded an alarm on Friday, saying rollbacks proposed by the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s dual mission to protect the environment and human health.
Zeldin said on Wednesday he planned to roll back 31 key environmental rules on everything from clean air to clean water and climate change. The former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy called Zeldin’s announcement “the most disastrous day in EPA history”.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/epa-lee-zeldin-trump-environment
Author : Associated Press
Publish date : 2025-03-14 21:28:00
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