The government of the Republican president Donald Trump It announced Wednesday that it was abolishing a series of environmental protection measures that were adopted in the four -year government of Joe Biden’s democratic predecessor, in particular to reduce car emissions and power plants.

The head of the Federal Environmental Protection Office (EPA), the Lee Zeldinpraised her day ‘Most important and influential deregulation in US history’promising to ‘Releasing American energy’ and to ‘Revive the automotive industry’ of his country.

Among the thirty measures it has announced, the US government means in particular to cancel the 2024 regulation required by power plants to reduce CO2 emissions almost to zero, on a closing penalty if they did not comply, including the use of a binding technologies and storage technologies and storage technologies. Environmental protection.

This decision, who had greeted ecological organizationsit was also involved in power plants that would burn gas and were to be built in the future, and it was to be implemented by 2032.

The previous US government estimated that the measure would allow almost 1.4 billion CO2 tonnes to be avoided by 2047, or otherwise the equivalent of 328 million cars a year.

“Political companies are celebrating today, as Trump’s EPA has just given them the free to make unlimited contamination, without being killed for the consequences.”commented on Charles Harper of the Evergreen Environmental Protection Organization.

The infamous challenge of climate change, Donald Trump often characterizes “fraud” the energy transition.

His government has fired hundreds of workers of the Federal Ocean and Atmospheric Observation Agency (NOAA), which played a key role in the US climate research.

Mass redundancies are also expected in EPA, whose budget is expected to shrink by 65%.

The service reported yesterday that its purpose is review the rules for pollution caused by cars and was expected to enter into force in 2027, but have been criticized by President Trump.

It is also expected to change the legislation on clean water, which banned them from throwing waste into ‘US Waters’on the penalty of fines.

The service now says that the government of Joe Biden had not taken into account the Supreme Court in 2023 on the basis of which only ‘Masses of water relatively permanent, stagnant or in constant route’such as streams, rivers, lakes and oceans, should be protected by law.

The Earthjustice Environmental Protection Organization warns that this cease to protect millions of acres of wetlands, ecosystems of crucial, filtering water and protecting from floods, as well as millions of kilometers of small streams that provide remarkable water.

Lee Zeldin also confirmed the decision to close environmental justice departments in EPA, ending decades of federal state efforts to fight against pollution affecting communities in degraded US areas.

‘President Trump wants to help to open a golden age in America For all Americans, regardless of race, gender and origin »Mr Zeldin told reporters.

For him MatthewNGO Natural Resources Defense Council, “Trump’s EPA leads us back to the era of unhindered contamination in the country, exposing every American to toxic chemicals, with air and water infected.”