Could Donald Trump Kill the EPA? Probably Not, but He Could Cripple It

[SecularMotion]

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised cheering Rust Belt crowds that he would shutter the Environmental Protection Agency and roll back regulations. Now that he's headed to the Oval Office, the environmental community is contemplating how Trump might make good on those promises.

Some of them may prove to be campaign bluster. Some of them may not.

"Trump sounds like he's serious about scaling back much environmental regulation," said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change at the Columbia Law School.

But dismantling the EPA, as Trump has threatened, is far more difficult than simply shooing it away.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14112016/donald-trump-kill-epa-regulations-clean-power-plan

[duhneece]

1. With it crippled, Republican Congress could then kill it

I should have said, "With it crippled, the corporate/industry/Republican Congress can and want to kill it."