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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman

‘It would be devastating’: inside Trump’s plan to destroy the EPA

Workers clean up an oil spill on a beach
Environmental oil spill cleanup crews clean oil chucks off the beach from a major spill in Huntington Beach, California, in October 2021. Photograph: Allen J Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Donald Trump and his advisers have made campaign promises to toss crucial environmental regulations and boost the planet-heating fossil fuel sector.

Those plans include systemically dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal body with the most power to take on the climate emergency and environmental justice, an array of Trump advisers and allies said. It’s a potential future that “horrifies” experts.

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