Legal experts say it's a marked departure from the agency’s historic purpose to protect human health and the environment. “It's an all out assault on climate regulation and environmental and public health protections,” says Michael Burger, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

In a barrage of pronouncements Wednesday, the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described it as "the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.

These announcements represent the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States,” an EPA representative wrote in one of a slew of press releases. Zeldin said the moves would lower the cost of living,

Administrator Lee Zeldin promised ‘historic’ deregulation at the EPA with sweeping changes to rules governing power plants, the oil and gas industry and more.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced 31 actions that the agency will undertake to "power the great American comeback."

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to unwind 31 Biden-era regulations intended to boost industries ranging from agriculture to electric utilities, oil and petrochemicals and automobiles to align with Trump’s vows to slash red tape.