Opinion | Climate policy should involve building stuff

The Washington Post · last updated March 29, 2025 – 3:56 AM

President Donald Trump is coming at climate policy with the ferocity of a wildfire. He has ridiculed regulations on carbon emissions and gutted agencies designed to carry them out. His Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, has vowed to eliminate rules wholesale, starting with his agency’s 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a public health threat, which undergirds most federal climate actions.

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