This was kind of a wild Xweet to read from Charlie Gasparino this afternoon.

Just got stopped in the subway by a dude in a suit who said “just so ya know all the lawyers at the @EPA got laid off I’m one of them.”

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 12, 2025

All the lawyers at the Environmental Protection Agency?

GONE?

How 'bout them apples?

My initial reaction was, I hope they swath the building in heavy cloth and fumigate the f**k out of it. Because, you know.

IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE

Other reactions to the news only confirmed my feelings about that nest of ideological vipers. The unanimity across the board was astonishing. People can feel sorry for the clerk in an office caught up in this, the GS-7 who just processes tax returns, or the janitor at a soon-to-be-sold federal building.

They're worker bees, not policy wonks and attack dogs.

But EPA lawyers? To be a part of that dystopian bureau through these past years, writing and enforcing their insanity across the spectrum of American life?

WAAH - NO MORE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

https://t.co/VWzoi04WCQ via @NYTimes Another disgusting chapter in Trump’s war on the poor and employees in general. Republican complicity should not be forgotten.

— Richard D Winfield (@rdwinfield) March 12, 2025

Vicious virtue signallers kick and scream and beat their tiny fists.

The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator.

In the internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, Mr. Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization and elimination” of the offices of environmental justice at all 10 E.P.A. regional offices as well as the one in Washington.

Mr. Zeldin’s move effectively ends three decades of work at the E.P.A. to try to ease the pollution that burdens poor and minority communities, which are frequently located near highways, power plants, industrial plants and other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those communities have higher rates of asthma, heart disease and other health problems, compared with the national average.

“If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it,” said Matthew Tejada, a former E.P.A. official who is now a senior vice president for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit organization.

I would have to imagine the fellow who stopped Gasparino was one of those woke warriors.

WHO WILL SAVE US IF THE LAWYERS ARE GONE?

The cry has gone up the Heavens from the weak-willed, the woke, the wobbly...it's uplifting.

SING, BROTHER K, SING

BREAKING: The Trump EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announces that it is about to unravel a massive amounts of environmental protections in America. The environment no longer matters to them.

They should be called the EEA (Environmental Endangerment Agency).

Here are… pic.twitter.com/B3EaCx6ylK

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 12, 2025

...Here are just a few of the Key Deregulatory Actions and Their Impacts: 

Repealing Emission Limits for Power Plants: The administration is dismantling regulations that limit emissions from coal-fired power plants. This move will lead to increased air pollution, exacerbating respiratory illnesses and accelerating climate change. 

Weakening Vehicle Emission Standards: By rolling back fuel efficiency standards and emissions regulations for vehicles, the administration is undermining efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This will result in dirtier air and hinder progress toward combating climate change.  

Reducing Waterway Protections: The administration is scaling back protections under the Clean Water Act, leaving our rivers, lakes, and streams vulnerable to pollution from industrial waste and agricultural runoff. This threatens the safety of our drinking water and the health of aquatic ecosystems.  

Challenging the Endangerment Finding: The administration plans to challenge the 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions pose a public health risk. Overturning this finding would strip the EPA of its authority to regulate these harmful emissions, effectively ignoring the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.

I mean, I already liked Zeldin - Crabby Krassenstein doesn't have to sell him to me. The new EPA administrator has been humming along, making sense and DAWG.

Is he saving the American taxpayer money damn near every day.

US EPA Administrator Says He Canceled DEI Grants Totaling $1.7 Billion

 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Monday he canceled 400 environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling $1.7 billion in the Trump administration's latest crackdown on DEI initiatives.

..."This fourth round of EPA/ @DOGE cuts was our biggest yet," he said.

EPA employees, accustomed to normally working cheek-by-jowl with the radical NGOs and nonprofits they finance, have been told to zip it, and they are not happy.

Environmental Protection Agency staff members across the country have been told by supervisors they are prohibited from communicating with grantee partners they are supposed to supervise and monitor, according to multiple sources inside the EPA and others working directly with the agency.

And many nonprofit organizations and other EPA grant recipients have found themselves frozen out of accessing their federal funds without notice or explanation.

"I have never experienced anything like this," said Melissa Bosworth, who runs a small nonprofit organization based out of Denver that had been administering an EPA award approved by Congress last May for tribal, school and local municipalities in the mountain west.

Nonprofit leaders from across the country with EPA grants and contracts describe weeks of a communication blackout. Bosworth said her local contacts at the EPA's Region 8 office stopped responding within days of President Donald Trump's inauguration. She and her partnering organization, Montana State University, noted they reached out repeatedly to their local point of contact but got no response.

Had they been asking more questions instead of simply 'working closely...

...Typically, EPA staff works closely with nonprofit organizations and local government partners who have been awarded grants, conducting oversight and answering and asking questions about how the government money is being spent.

...maybe they wouldn't be under a gag order right now. No one to blame but the agency's culture of arrogance itself.

As for their new headman, he's a machine.

🚨BREAKING: @EPA is initiating 31 historic actions to Power the Great American Comeback in the greatest day of deregulation in American history!

Our actions will unleash energy dominance, lower costs for Americans, strengthen the U.S. auto industry, and protect our environment. pic.twitter.com/7B3fh5qBKY

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) March 12, 2025

I'll bet the progressives are unhappy. All those mandates, excessive regulations, and incessant environmental warfare on Americans are going down the drain.

UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY  

• Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) 
• Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) 
• Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) 
• Reconsideration of mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program that imposed significant costs on the American energy supply (GHG Reporting Program) 
• Reconsideration of limitations, guidelines and standards (ELG) for the Steam Electric Power Generating Industry to ensure low-cost electricity while protecting water resources (Steam Electric ELG) 
• Reconsideration of wastewater regulations for coal power plants to help unleash American energy (Oil and Gas ELG) 
• Reconsideration of Biden-Harris Administration Risk Management Program rule that made America’s oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities less safe (Risk Management Program Rule) 

LOWERING THE COST OF LIVING FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES 

• Reconsideration of light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicle regulations that provided the foundation for the Biden-Harris electric vehicle mandate (Car GHG Rules) 
• Reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and regulations and actions that rely on that Finding (Endangerment Finding) 
• Reconsideration of technology transition rule that forces companies to use certain technologies that increased costs on food at grocery stores and semiconductor manufacturing (Technology Transition Rule) 
• Reconsideration of Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards that shut down opportunities for American manufacturing and small businesses (PM 2.5 NAAQS) 
• Reconsideration of multiple National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for American energy and manufacturing sectors (NESHAPs) 
• Restructuring the Regional Haze Program that threatened the supply of affordable energy for American families (Regional Haze) 
• Overhauling Biden-Harris Administration’s “Social Cost of Carbon” 
• Redirecting enforcement resources to EPA’s core mission to relieve the economy of unnecessary bureaucratic burdens that drive up costs for American consumers (Enforcement Discretion) 
• Terminating Biden’s Environmental Justice and DEI arms of the agency (EJ/DEI) 

ADVANCING COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM  

• Ending so-called “Good Neighbor Plan” which the Biden-Harris Administration used to expand federal rules to more states and sectors beyond the program’s traditional focus and led to the rejection of nearly all State Implementation Plans 
• Working with states and tribes to resolve massive backlog with State Implementation Plans and Tribal Implementation Plans that the Biden-Harris Administration refused to resolve (SIPs/TIPs) 
• Reconsideration of exceptional events rulemaking to work with states to prioritize the allowance of prescribed fires within State and Tribal Implementation Plans (Exceptional Events) 
• Reconstituting Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (SAB/CASAC) 
• Prioritizing coal ash program to expedite state permit reviews and update coal ash regulations (CCR Rule) 
• Utilizing enforcement discretion to further North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene

This is going to seriously cut into the green grifting industry, too. No more consulting contracts for 'advising' the government as it formulates bogus, labyrinthine new rules or advising impacted businesses or farmers how to deal with them when the EPA imposes them.

[CUE: sad trombone]

Oh, this is a great start at cleaning house.