2025-03-13
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From the New York Times, it's the Headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Thursday, March 13th.
Here's what we're covering.
Today.
I'm pleased to make the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.
The Environmental Protection Agency is initiating 31 historic.
Lee Zeldin, head of the EPA, has announced that the Trump administration's repealing dozens of the country's most consequential environmental policies.
From its limits on pollution from cars and factories to its protections for wetlands.
EPA will be reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy.
Most significantly, Zeldin wants to undercut the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions at all.
To do that, the agency will have to argue that those emissions pose no foreseeable threat to public health, going against decades of science that show otherwise.
Yesterday's announcement underscores the administration's approach to climate science.
For years now, President Trump has disputed the science of climate change and made it clear that he has very little interest in supporting a transition to an economy powered by renewable energy.
My colleague David Gellis covers climate policy.