Betrayal. It hangs thick with the stench of corporate subservience and regulatory abandonment. Welcome to Lee Zeldin's EPAโa festering bureaucratic wasteland where environmental protection has been replaced by polluter protection. As Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Zeldin has transformed what was once America's environmental guardian into a goddamn rubber stamp for every corporation looking to dump their toxic shit into our air, water, and communities.
Chemical Safety Regulations: Poisoning America One Regulation at a Time
The metallic taste of lead and arsenic lingers on the collective tongue of America while Zeldin dismantles chemical safety regulations with the enthusiasm of a kid with a new sledgehammer. His fingerprints are all over the gutting of toxicity standards that once protected our children from brain-damaging chemicals. During his confirmation hearings, he had the fucking audacity to suggest that chemical companies should "self-regulate" because apparโฆ
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