Trump EPA moves to roll back rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

Photo by AP/Joshua Bickel BY SETH BORENSTEIN, M.K. WILDEMAN, MELINA WALLING, JOSHUA A. BICKEL, AND MATTHEW DALY Updated 7:03 PM EDT, June 5, 2025 When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy. What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human [...]