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by culi 1222 days ago
More or less the same?? We had 4 years of the largest reversal on environmental protections we've ever seen

The Trump administration had replaced the Clean Power Plan, redefined critical terms under the Endangered Species Act, lifted oil and natural gas extraction bans, weakened the Coal Ash Rule, which regulates the disposal of toxic coal waste, and revised Mercury and Air Toxic Standards–just to name a few

Here's a full list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir...

And that doesn't count the extralegal strategies used by the administration to bring the department to a halt