Elizabeth Kolbert

So that was sort of a very restricted category.

And another decision they touted as a MAHA win was a decision to reevaluate a pesticide called Paraquat, which has been linked to Parkinson's disease.

But it turned out when you sort of looked into that, that that decision to reevaluate Paraquat had actually been made by the Biden administration.

When Lee Zeldin took over the EPA, as we talked about before, it had a very simple mission.

It still officially has the mission to protect public health and the environment.

But he added these other pillars to that.

He called them pillars.

And one of those was restoring American energy dominance.

And a lot of actions have been taken by this EPA in the name of restoring energy dominance that really

I think many, many people would argue are directly counter to protecting public health and the environment.

So the EPA has definitely been, you know, very much a part of this effort by the Trump administration to pump up fossil fuel production in this country and

To do something really beyond that, and this gets to the far-reaching nature of what's going on right now, this phenomenon called lock-in, to lock in fossil fuel infrastructure.

So if you put up that plant, if you put in that pipeline, that becomes something that's that much more difficult.

Before the lifetime of that facility, if you want to close it down early, you're obviously costing a lot of money.

And you've wasted a lot of money in that case.

So if you sort of try to lock in as much infrastructure as possible, the odds that that infrastructure is then going to be used for its lifetime goes up.

So they're trying to actually put as much fossil fuel infrastructure into the ground on the theory that that will then be used for the next 30, 40, 50 years.

And that is precisely true.

precisely what we should not be doing.

We should not be building any more fossil fuel infrastructure.