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Photo from the LA Times

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding

(Updated, with this Trump order) "The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be."

• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/climate/endangerment-finding-auto-emissions-regulations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.1MMD.Cox7hRsyuiae&smid=url-share

A Trump Legacy: Rejecting Science, Climate Change, and the Environmental Protection Agency

A Moment in History That Will Be Remembered

For now, let's take a quick look back at actions taken to advance environmental protection and the nation's well being, the beginnings of the EPA, atmospheric/climate/earth science, national security, health, and a better future for all.

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:SMOG_be_gone.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tracking_science_policy_across_the_Trump_administration.png

• https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title42/chapter85&edition=prelim

GreenPolicy360:

Let's call this Trump rejection of science what it is -- an act of hubris, an decision that will not stand in the face of physics...

Donald Trump's administration, with an EPA taken over by anti-science purveyors who callously and destructively set aside fifty plus years of scientific data, now act to put their legacy into the history books. Their action to deny the overwhelmingly evident dangers of climate change, a gathering storm threatening US and world environmental security, is an ignominious day.

We, today's generation and future generations will live to mark this moment as a tragedy, one that accelerates real-world physics of earth systems, delivering climate impacts, disruptions, security lost...

The Trump administration have delivered 'retro' thinking, anti-science destructiveness.

The Clean Air Acts and accompanying model regulations, ideas beginning in California to deal with its "smog" in the 1960s/70s, were shared and spread throughout the US -- and the world's cities and communities. Profound progress, meant explicitly to deal with hazardous air pollutants and remedy the climate-related costs, the damages of atmospheric pollution to health, environment and future well being that adversely impacts life across nations and regions of Earth, was achieved and continues to be achieved. The Trump attempt to block this progress will fail.

Yet, the time lost to Trumpian folly will add additional costs to humanity's journey forward.

We mark these days in February 2026 as times to be remembered -- and judged -- for what they are.