EPA Bypassing Legacy Media And Feeding Right Wing Media Propaganda Outlets
“The U.S. DOGE Service, billionaire Elon Musk’s initiative to slash the size of the federal government, also commended Zeldin on X for an ‘awesome job’ on saving taxpayer money.”
‘The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.’” (EPA Administrator Zeldin)
The Trump EPA is beginning to get some negative press coverage and political pushback, particularly in response to EPA Administrator Zeldin’s recommendation to repeal the “Endangerment finding”. That finding was mandated by the US Supreme Court opinion in 2007 and serves as the legal and scientific basis for EPA regulation of greenhouses gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
But what the press has NOT been reporting could be even worse.
First, a minor diversion for some relevant history.
People forget that Bush EPA Administrator Christie Whitman’s EPA reversed the Clinton EPA’s legal analysis on whether CO2 was a pollutant regulated by the Clean Air Act.
That is essentially the same thing as Trump EPA Administrator Zeldin just did with respect to the Endangerment finding. For the links and receipts on all that, see:
The Supreme Court cited Whitman’s EPA General Counsel – a lawyer Whitman brought to EPA from her NJ Governor’s Office – Robert Fabricant’s opinion in the text of the 2007 opinion, (@ p.8) citing EPA Federal Register notice 68 Fed. Reg. 52924 – . 52925–52929 (2003 ):
On September 8, 2003, EPA entered an order denying the rulemaking petition. 68 Fed. Reg. 52922. The agency gave two reasons for its decision: (1) that contrary to the opinions of its former general counsels, the Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to issue mandatory regulations to address global climate change, see id., at 52925–52929; and (2) that even if the agency had the authority to set greenhouse gas emission standards, it would be unwise to do so at this time, id., at 52929–52931.
But not even Whitman tried to do anything remotely as corrupt as Zeldin.
Getting back to our current focus, for a good summary overview of the EPA rollbacks thus far, see:
For the wonks, this review is what you should read:
Second, every move EPA Administrator Zeldin has made was at the specific direction of prior Trump Executive Orders.
There are many more disastrous rollbacks in the pipeline as mandated by Trump EPA and DOI and Energy Executive Orders that have not been reported or covered superficially so people are unable to understand what’s going on or how it would impact their lives (other than by Trump slogans, like “Drill, Baby Drill” or “Terminating The Green New Scam”).
As Trump himself has bragged, this is only the beginning (of the horrors).
Third, as this could be the most twisted EPA action of all, EPA’s Press Office has created an alternative reality, echo chamber, and media landscape.
EPA is overtly feeding Trump MAGA propaganda outlets.
I’ve never seen anything like this. EPA has joined the “alternative reality” universe and destroyed any shred that remained of their credibility.
Check out this EPA press release on the “dumping gold bars off the titanic” scam that laid the foundation for the DOGE/OMB clawback of $20 billion in Biden Infrastructure funding.
Keep in mind that this illegal scam trigged the resignation of Justice Department lawyers. The Trump attack dog FBI intervened and issued some kind of extraordinary and likely illegal Order to a US bank to freeze billions of dollars.
In their rollout of this scam, look at the media outlets that EPA quotes in the body of the press release! (they left out Project Veritas who fabricated the scam):
- New York Post EXCLUSIVE
- Blaze Media
- Breitbart
- Daily Caller
- Daily Mail
- Daily Wire News
- Fox News
- Newsmax
- PJ Media
- RealClear Politics
- Washington Examiner
- WAPO
- Washington Times
Flood the zone and feed the maggots.