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Donald Trump’s EPA pick wants to ‘make America the AI capital of the world’
He’ll “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions.”
“We can meet demand for data centers without scrapping EPA rules to clean up dirty power plants and cut climate pollution,” Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said in a statement responding to Zeldin’s appointment. Zeldin will “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards,” Trump posted on Truth Social yesterday. Trump previously repealed an Obama-era plan to slash power plant emissions and replaced it with weaker regulations, a decision the EPA estimated would lead to thousands more deaths and “exacerbated” asthma cases from pollution.
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