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The Trump EPA's baffling new agenda consists of throttling major environmental rules

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EPA to reconsider 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health.
Move comes amid barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin calls it the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history’s.
The Trump administration has promised additional environmental rollbacks in the coming weeks . The Energy Dominance Council that the president established last month is looking to eliminate a vast array of regulations in an effort to boost the fossil fuel industry, the interior secretary, Doug Burgum , told the oil and gas conference CeraWeek in Houston on Wednesday . “We will come up with the ways that we can cut red tape,” he said. “We can easily get rid of 20-30 percent of our regulations.” Additional reporting by Dharna Noor .
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