What a day this has been at EPA. First, President Donald Trump tells reporters that EPA Administrator might terminate up to 65% of EPA employees as part of the administration’s cost-cutting project.
A couple of hours later, the Washington Post publishes a story quoting citing sources who say Zeldin has requested permission from the White House to reverse the insane 2009 endangerment finding that allows EPA to regulate carbon dioxide - i.e., the gas that is literally the foundational element for all life on Planet Earth - as a “pollutant.” That finding has since served as the basis for every climate policy pushed by both the Obama and Biden administrations.
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