Trump’s EPA to prioritize AI, lobbyists and staff cuts in ‘mission to traumatize’
by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor from on (#6V3DG)
New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin's pillars pledge to help auto industry and have no mention of the climate crisis
A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration - one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority.
A set of five pillars" issued by new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, to guide the agency, set up under President Richard Nixon in 1970 to protect US public health and the environment, does include one referencing clean land, air and water for every American".
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