The Trump Administration is taking dead aim at regulations that protect people’s lives, livelihoods and communities -- including regulations that protect our health and environment.  Fortunately, no president can roll back regulations by fiat.  Trump officials must go through the same process that’s used for making regulations.  That process gives everyone the opportunity to be heard. 

This Save EPA web site has resources to help you oppose proposed rule rollbacks:

  1. "A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump De-Regulatory Agenda" describes how to fight rule rollbacks by commenting during the federal rule-making process, enlisting members of Congress, and taking other actions.  Learn more about the guide and download your own PDF copy here.
  2. EPA rollback proposals now open for comment are listed below.  We also list closely related rollback proposals of other federal agencies.
  3. Rollback fact sheets with talking points are posted for many rollback actions.  Each fact sheet describes the rule at risk, the Trump Administration's proposed rollback, and suggested points to make in opposing the rollback.  For rollbacks currently open for comment, the fact sheet also includes the comment deadline, information on how to submit your comments, and a link for online submission.  Find all the fact sheets by going to the menu bar at the top of any Save EPA web page, clicking "Fighting Rule Rollbacks" and hovering your mouse pointer over "Rules Under Attack."
  4. Want the big picture?  See Save EPA's "List of Trump Administration Rollback Actions:  EPA Rules and Closely Related Rules."  It includes planned, current and past actions.
  5. Finally, these links make it easy to write your members of Congress (your representative in the House of Representatives and your two senators).  If you're willing to register with Countable, this link --  https://www.countable.us/ -- allows you to identify your members of Congress and send a message to all three at once.  Or, you can write them separately -- you can use https://whoismyrepresentative.com/ or https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/ to find your members' email contact forms or snail mail addresses.  See the guide for more help.

 

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Proposed Rules Open For Comment

The Trump Administration has targeted many EPA regulations to be weakened or outright eliminated.  Also targeted are related rules of other agencies.  Save EPA is tracking these actions, and providing talking points to help commenters who want to resist the Trump agenda. As the people these regulations are designed to protect, we need to be loud and clear that these protections are important to us. We can’t afford to be silent while President Trump tries to take the U.S.A. backwards to a time of dirty air, polluted waters and contaminated land. 

TO LEARN ABOUT PROPOSED RULES OPEN FOR COMMENT -- in menu at top of page, select "Fighting Rule Rollbacks," then "Rules Under Attack," then "Open for Comment".

2 thoughts on “Rules Under Attack”

  1. From California –

    According to conclusions of the U.S. 4th Annual Global Change Assessment, we are now in a decade that must exercise the greatest control ever on emissions of heat trapping gases. Methane standards must be upheld in all sectors because methane is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the earth. We cannot “pay later”, we must “pay now” or see our earth be enveloped in catastropic floods, wildfires and droughts.
    Please do your job and protect our future generations.

    Wileen Ellen Sweet
    Point Reyes Station, CA

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  2. We are a new group in Washington D.C. of concerned residents who are looking to be effective here. We need guidance on what our primary action items should be. What are the 3 MOST EFFECTIVE ACTIONS WE CAN TAKE TO HELP? Thank you for your response. Holly Pollinger holpollinger@comcast.net Moderator for Cathedral Heights Combatting Climate Change.

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Save EPA has been an all-volunteer group of former EPA officials who became alarmed about the Trump agenda for EPA and joined together to fight it.

With newly-elected President-Elect Biden and VP-Elect Harris coming in January, the need to "save EPA" is much less urgent. This is not to imply all clear skies ahead - there is much re-building to do, there will be negative pressures on the new administration, and we will likely have policy differences in the future. However, we are hopeful that these differences will be discussed rationally, using science as a basis for moving forward, and keeping EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment in the forefront.

And so, we are going back to retirement!  We're keeping our website up at http://saveepaalums.info/ , as a resource for those who want to follow and influence the restoration work. Our report on the Trump record at EPA describes the actions that need to be reversed [saveepaalums.info/Trump+era+report], and our guide to participating in the rulemaking process [http://saveepaalums.info/Resistance+Guide] can help you be part of the solution.

Thank you for your support and commitment during the past 3.5 years.  While the Trump assaults were unending, they were also frequently unsuccessful, and that was due in large part to public outrage.  Keep it up!  Although EPA will be in much better hands with a Biden administration, there is always a need for an informed and engaged public.