EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Trump Administration's Deregulatory Actions

EPA's Deregulatory Agenda

• 💡 The Trump EPA rejects the notion that protecting the environment requires strangulating the economy, instead choosing to protect the environment and grow the economy.
• 🎯 A special Labor Day message is extended to America's workforce, including auto workers, coal miners, steam fitters, and pipe fitters.

Key Deregulatory Actions

• 🚀 The proposed recision of the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding and all subsequent light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicle regulations is highlighted as the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. government history.
• 📊 The EPA has announced dozens of different deregulatory actions, aiming to achieve more deregulation in one year than entire federal governments have accomplished across multiple presidencies.
• ✅ Specific actions mentioned include reversing the deratement on diesel exhaust fluid systems and getting gas cans flowing faster.

Broader Administration Goals

• 🔑 The EPA's mission under the Trump administration includes ensuring clean air, land, and water, unleashing energy dominance, advancing cooperative federalism, reforming permitting, making America the AI capital, and bringing back American auto jobs.
• 🤝 The administration has worked on international agreements, such as a permanent solution for the Tijuana River sewage crisis with Mexico.

Inter-Agency Cooperation

• 🛠️ Collaboration with other government bodies is emphasized, including the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Energy, the State Department, and the Department of Defense.
• 💧 Efforts with the Army Corps and other departments aim to improve water flow in California, assist farmers and ranchers, and revise the definition of "waters of the United States" to reduce the need for legal and consulting services for landowners.