A little background, I worked for a state environmental regulatory agency for a few years. I even helped write some of the regulations myself. Almost everyone there were scientists and engineers. Learning the actual science and engineering behind environmental processes gives you a clear perspective on what is actually going on. There were 4 divisions in that agency Air, Water, Land, and the legal department. Basically, states take the EPA regulations and adopt them. It is up to the states to enforce this. Individual states can make their regulations more stringent than the EPA regulations. However, states cannot make their regulations more lax than the EPA regulations. The EPA regs are pretty much the foundation that you build all your state regulatory agencies on. So, when a new President comes in, he cannot just ditch the current guidelines and start dumping things into our air, land, and water. Despite what the dumbass leftists say, Trump DID NOTHING to "harm the environment." What he did do was lift some of the absurd add-on regulations imposed by the Marx-bama administration. These ridiculous and unachievable regulations/sanctions on certain companies are stacked on top of the existing EPA regulations. When these companies cannot adhere to these over-reaching requirements they have to pay a fine. Guess who gets the money from the fine. It's "legal" extortion. The EPA regulations do enough as far as protecting the environment,although there are a lot of leftists working at the EPA that want more and more strict guidelines. It's not about the environment. It's about power and control.

Let me summarize by saying that we are doing a FANTASTIC JOB of managing and protecting our environment in this country. Don't let anyone tell you differently. If they do, they're obviously not a scientist or engineer that actually took the time to learn about our environment. These people that wail and whine about the environment are environmentalists. Environmentalists are people that aren't scientists or engineers. They are people that feel strongly and want to "help" the environment. They're basically uneducated morons that try to tell you what needs to be done when they have no actual knowledge of what needs to be done. For example, that brain dead, fucktarded liar AOC.

As far as the people I worked with, there weren't really any zealots there. It may have changed since I worked there but I doubt it. All the people working there went to school to learn the various processes and science behind protecting the environment. So, when you have that knowledge you do your job of enforcing the regulations on book. I don't recall anything being unreasonably regulated. Everything from air emissions, to groundwater monitoring, to hazardous waste disposal was based on science and doing the best thing for the environment.

I think what Trump should have done was to go to the Paris Climate Accord blah and dump a copy of all our EPA regulations and tell them that when they get their countries up to our standards, then we can talk about the real problem, China and India.

Hope this was somewhat helpful. I tend to go a little overboard because it makes me so damn mad when I hear these idiots who have no idea of what they are talking about, trying to tell us about the environment and the "damage" we're doing when in reality we are doing a fantastic job of protecting our environment in the United States.