“Most consequential day of deregulation”

Verbatim, here is how the head of the Environmental Protection Agency described his actions today: “We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age. ‘Energy dominance’ stands at the center of America’s resurgence.”

These actions will roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

I feel so incredibly sorry for the next few generations — including my kids’ who will have to deal with the very real consequences of these thoughtless actions. It’s too bad that those who instigated these actions will be long dead before the consequences are incontrovertible… but that seems to be the strategy across all actions taken by that administration: short term gains for the rich and damn the future.