Trump’s EPA Focus: Delay, Rescind, Dismantle Environmental and Health Protections

Inside Climate News · By Liza Gross · last updated December 19, 2025 – 12:16 PM

For the first time in the agency’s 55-year history, Congress has ceded its responsibility to oversee the EPA to a single politician who sanctioned its “wholesale demolition,” former staff charge.

By Liza Gross

Over the past year, environmental experts who have dedicated their lives to public service have watched the partisan, unilateral destruction of the agency they once helped run.

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