ドナルド・トランプの2期目開始から1年、米環境保護局（EPA）は職員削減やプログラム削減を含む大幅な変更を受け、現役および元職員の抵抗を招いている。公開異議声明に署名したモンタナ・クルコウスキやミッシー・ハニエビッチらの職員は解雇されたが、現在法的手段で異議申し立て中だ。擁護団体は科学の完全性を維持し機関を再建する取り組みを支援している。
2024年冬、モンタナ・クルコウスキはEPAシカゴ地域事務所に入局し、部族政府の安全飲料水支援や中西部の商業航空会社の監督を担った。しかし2025年が始まると、新トランプ政権が大規模な変更を導入。大統領令により通常の出張と支出が凍結され、水道システムの検査が停止した。
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The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule rescinding its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles endanger public health and welfare, a step the agency says eliminates its authority under the Clean Air Act to set greenhouse-gas standards for cars and trucks. The action—grounded in a new legal interpretation and the Supreme Court’s “major questions” doctrine—has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats and legal and scientific experts and is expected to face court challenges.
Following the spring 2025 'EPA Declaration of Dissent' by over 140 career employees opposing agency shifts under the Trump administration, Administrator Lee Zeldin placed 144 signers on paid administrative leave. A New Yorker article questions the EPA's survival under his leadership, drawing Heartland Institute rebuttals defending the mild response.
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On February 12, 2026, the Trump administration repealed the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 Endangerment Finding, which had established greenhouse gases as threats to public health and welfare. President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the move at the White House, describing it as the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. The repeal undermines the legal foundation for numerous federal climate regulations.
A coalition of conservation, science and history groups has sued the Trump administration in federal court in Boston, arguing that a government-wide review tied to President Donald Trump’s executive order on “restoring truth and sanity to American history” is leading the National Park Service to remove or change displays about slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate science. In a separate case, LGBTQ+ advocates have challenged the removal of a rainbow Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument in New York after new Interior Department guidance on non-agency flags.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to shore up U.S. supplies of glyphosate and its key input, elemental phosphorus—an action that has drawn sharp criticism from parts of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the move as a national security measure.