The Trump administration is struggling to tear down the federal government’s “environmental justice” office.

last week, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced “End and prioritize radial and useless government DEI programs,” which began implementing Trump’s executive order. The agency placed 171 employees on leave at the DEI and Environmental Justice offices.

The EPA plans to close the Bureau of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights; Washington Post reported. Trump’s appointees from the Department of Justice have announced that they will restructure the Department’s environmental and natural resources division. (Related: Tyler O’Neill: 5 Things You Need to Know About John Podesta)

Immediately after her confirmation, the Attorney General Pam Bondi has been cancelled “Memorandums, guidance or similar directives implementing the previous administration’s “environmental justice” agenda. ”

“Now the department will enforce all federal civil and criminal laws equally, including environmental law,” Bondi said.

Why is this important?

“Environmental justice” refers to the toxic brewing of critical racial theories and climate warnings. Critical racial theory suggests that America is institutionally racist towards blacks and other minorities, and has a favourable white people. According to the climate warning, fossil fuel burning will bring Armageddon.

The EPA isEnvironmental justice“To ensure that Americans are fully protected from disproportionate and disadvantaged human health and environmental impacts (including risks) and risks; Climate changethe cumulative impact of the environment and other burdens, and Legacy of racism or other structural or systematic barriers” (emphasis added).

Trump took office with the promise to unleash American energy and reversal its application in the Biden administration’s critical racial theory and “diversity, equity and inclusion” movement. This diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) movement aims to reject a colour-blind approach to promoting some racial minorities and focusing on merit and capabilities.

While President George HW Bush established the EPA’s Environmental Equity Office (the secretariat where President Bill Clinton later renames the Office of Environmental Justice), President Joe Biden has surpassed his mission and has DEI’s Direct all government efforts, limiting fossil fuels, promoting unreliable forms of energy, such as wind and the sun.

In doing so, Biden followed the demands of activist groups, many of whom staffed and advised in his administration.

As I look at my book The Woketopus: The Dark Money cabal to control the federal government, Biden tapped climate warnings to a major leadership position.

Biden chose Michael Regan, vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund, to lead the EPA. He chose Laura Daniel Davis, vice president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), to serve at the Department of the Home Office. He appointed Tracey Stone-Manning, another NWF staffer, who confessed to entering letters on behalf of the environmental terrorists spiked trees, to lead the Bureau of Land Management.

Gina McCarthy, who heads the EPA under President Barack Obama, became president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) until Biden appointed her national climate advisor.

When Trump opposed the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, The NRDC issued a statement We condemn the move as “disgrace.” Who enlisted the NRDC to issue a statement? He is nothing but Matthew Tejada, who oversaw the Office of Environmental Justice from 2013 to 2022.

“The Trump EPA is abandoning our entire country’s communities where we need to be most useful,” Tehada said. “Closening the office of environmental justice means more toxic pollutants, dangerous air and unsafe water in communities across the country that have been most damaged by pollution in the past.”

But that conclusion, of course, relies on critical racial theories and climate warning assumptions. If America is not institutionally racist, but a country with civil rights laws that protect citizens of all races from discrimination, the EPA is in order to combat the pollution of Americans of a particular color. You don’t need an “environmental justice” office.

in the case of Predicting climate disasters It is exaggerated and based on false assumptions that exaggerate the risk when there is an actual death from a climate disaster A 99% decline over the past centuryperhaps the EPA does not need to invest additional funds in the Office of Environmental Justice. If there are fossil fuels It’s become quite cleanPerhaps the EPA should focus on specific air quality issues rather than predicting the fate of the world’s climate.

This appears to be at least part of the reason behind the rebuilding of the EPA.

“Under President Trump, the EPA focuses on its core mission to protect human health and the environment, promoting a great American comeback,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday. said in a statement. “Previous administrations used DEI and environmental justice to advance ideological priorities and distributed billions of dollars to organisations in the name of climate equity. This is over now.”

“We will become good custodians of taxes and do everything with our power to bring clean air, land and water to all Americans, regardless of race, religion, background or belief.” He added.

Pollution affects Americans in a variety of ways, but the EPA doesn’t need to indulge in critical racial theories and climate warnings to effectively combat the real threats Americans face. The EPA should focus on actual missions rather than addressing the supposed institutional racism and fossil fuel-induced disasters. This requires protecting Americans from specific cases of pollution and environmental hazards.

Of course, these humble concerns don’t require much federal funding and staff. And that might explain the real reason behind the left freakout for Trump’s move.

Tyler O’Neill manages the editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books.

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