{"id":108399,"date":"2025-03-14T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108399"},"modified":"2025-03-14T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:25:24","slug":"108399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108399","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/curtis-houck\/2025\/03\/14\/cbs-environmental-journo-slams-trump-epa-we-have-less-10-years\">CBS Environmental Journo Slams Trump EPA: We Have \u2018Less Than 10 Years\u2019 to Save Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the \u201cBy the Way\u201d segment on Friday\u2019s\u00a0<em>CBS Mornings Plus<\/em>, CBS environmental correspondent David Schechter decried the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Administrator Lee Zeldin by giving away the game on the climate alarmists by reupping a line that\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/dougp\/2025\/03\/14\/cbs-news-eco-reporter-breaks-out-tired-climate-change-warning-playbook-to-rip-lee-zeldin-n2409825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been deployed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for at least five decades, which is we have \u201cless than ten years\u201d to save Earth from climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Adriana Diaz twice teased his appearance and spelled doom about what deregulation at the EPA would mean,\u00a0<strong>ominously wondering \u201cwhat\u201d the \u201cbig changes at the EPA\u201d \u201ccould cost you\u201d as the \u201cadministration&#8230;mak[es] good on the President\u2019s campaign promise to roll back climate protections.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-field-provider-mrctv video-embed-field-responsive-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/592987\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the liberal media, any and all regulations are nearly always seen as a benefit and for our own good, not a hassle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c[O]ne of the things the EPA will now, \u2018reconsider\u2019 is what its press release calls a burdensome greenhouse gas reporting program where thousands of companies have to submit their emissions levels. Zeldin said the agency would try to undo a total of 31 environmental regulations from rules governing wastewater to emission standards. The Trump administration has also&#8230;revealed plans to shut down the EPA\u2019s Environmental Justice Division,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>she added.<\/p>\n<p>Schechter came out swinging with the apocalyptic analysis that\u00a0<strong>Zeldin has changed \u201cthe way we interface with the environment\u201d as the EPA has decided it has \u201cnothing\u201d to do with \u201cthe environment or ensuring \u201cwe have clean air and&#8230;clean water.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He continued with the claim Zeldin doesn\u2019t want to \u201ctalk about the environment and why we need to keep it clean and why climate change has become such an existential threat with increased floods and fires and droughts and how the EPA has a role in trying to make sure that we control that and contain that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, he dropped the tiresome claim about having less than a decade or we\u2019re goners:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"im--blockquote\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>I think the biggest risk is that we have a small window to deal with climate change, really. It\u2019s getting smaller and smaller, less than 10 years, to sort of level out and reduce our emissions and we had and have currently a lot of rules that deal with that. To throw those all out would undo a lot of progress that\u2019s been made to try to reach these new standards for our country and for the world. And we will lose our opportunity to really get ahead of this problem or even stay current with the problem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Co-host Tony Dokoupil next summarized Zeldin\u2019s view of the EPA as \u201cif companies save money by not having to report a bunch of things that are a waste of time, they can take that saved money and make the energy process cleaner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schechter was obviously not having it because, you can\u2019t trust non-governmental parties to behave (click \u201cexpand\u201d):<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq_collapsible_wrapper\">\n<blockquote id=\"bq_630127\" class=\"collapsible im--blockquote collapse\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>SCHECHTER: I don\u2019t know if, I guess if that\u2019s your reading of that claim, I think that\u2019s an interesting way to look at it. You know, companies, corporations, many of them do, do the right thing and do spend a lot of time on their environmental issues and reporting and things like that, but, you know, the government\u2019s job is to set a level playing field, if that\u2019s how you view the government\u2019s job, to set a level playing field with regulations so that everyone is following the same rules. Some companies do get in trouble when they get ahead of their competitors and they have rules that are maybe more stringent than what their competitors have. And then the market kind of catches up to them and they take a lot of criticism for being too far ahead of the pack. So, you know, having stoplights and roads and, you know, rules of the road, is what keeps everybody sort of moving in the same direction. That\u2019s the idea of the EPA. That\u2019s the power of the EPA. And to say we care about the earth and we care about clean water, that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do, is one thing, but to look at what they did and want to cut 31 important regulations is really what you should be looking at.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>DOKOUPIL: It\u2019s interesting. Yeah, but this is the claim from the EPA press release. Hundreds of millions of dollars saved could better be used, \u201cto improve and upgrade environmental controls to have a noticeable impact and improvement on the environment.\u201d We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>DIAZ: Yeah.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>SCHECHTER: Yeah.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>DIAZ: And if companies take it upon themselves to try to make that environmental improvement without the regulations.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-default tog_bq_630127 collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#bq_630127\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"bq_630127\"><i class=\"fa fa-caret-square-o-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"tog_text_bq_630127\">Expand<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This Friday segment actually capped three days of rage at CBS.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling back to Thursday, senior White House and campaign correspondent Ed O\u2019Keefe appeared on both\u00a0<em>CBS Mornings<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Plus<\/em>\u00a0editions to say the EPA will now be \u201crolling back&#8230;regulations\u201d that said \u201cgreenhouse gasses are bad for public health[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, on Tuesday,\u00a0<em>CBS Evening News<\/em>\u00a0co-anchor Maurice DuBois said the agency was doing away with red tape \u201caimed at protecting public health and fighting climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-anchor John Dickerson commiserated with former Obama EPA official Matthew Tejada a half-hour later on\u00a0<em>CBS Evening Plus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tejada went full doomsday and fearmongerer by saying\u00a0<strong>Zeldin\u2019s announcement was \u201ctaking us back to the 1960s, from before the times when we had regulations that actually cleaned up our water, protect people from across our country, from cancer-causing agents in our air, actually cleaning up legacy contamination sites that people had been living on top of for generations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-field-provider-mrctv video-embed-field-responsive-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/592988\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tejada further vented\u00a0<strong>the Trump administration will \u201ctak[e] us back to that time when we didn\u2019t have regulation\u201d in which Americans won\u2019t be \u201chealthier\u201d as they\u2019re purposefully \u201callowing polluting industries\u201d to \u201chav[e] absolutely unfettered ability to pour their pollution into our communities[.]\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Always a pompous partisan, Dickerson invited Tejada to go further (click \u201cexpand\u201d):<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq_collapsible_wrapper\">\n<blockquote id=\"bq_746873\" class=\"collapsible im--blockquote collapse\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>DICKERSON: And Matthew, one of the announcements today said the agency is, quote, \u201creconsidering the 2009 engagement finding.\u201d Help us understand what that means.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>TEJADA: Yeah, that was the endangerment finding. That was the finding that basically unlocked the authorities of the Environmental Protection Agency and our federal government to start combating climate change. We have seen repeatedly how our climate is changing on a regular basis and having devastating consequences, not just in our country, but across the world, how it is causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages every single year. They\u2019re taking us back to not even square one, to the one decision that allowed us to start to make the slightest progress that was then supercharged during the last administration through the Inflation Reduction Act, another regulatory progress that we made recently. It is taking us back in time, just like all these other decisions are taking us way back to an era when we were suffering from pollution in every part of this country.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>DICKERSON: And let me ask you now, finally, Matthew, about the environmental justice offices. Remind us about \u2014 define environmental justice for us and what you think will now happen as a result of these policies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>TEJADA: So environmental justice has worked for decades to make sure that every part of our country, especially those parts of our country that have not had the power to keep pollution out of their community and to bring in the positives of a clean environment, of green space, of natural resources. Those are black and brown communities. Those are indigenous communities. Those are low-income white communities. Those communities that have not had a power to actually be protected from environmental pollution. The environmental justice program at EPA worked every single day to make sure that those communities felt heard by their government and to bring their voices back into government to make it respond and serve those people too. And they are gutting that program today as we speak.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-default tog_bq_746873 collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#bq_746873\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"bq_746873\"><i class=\"fa fa-caret-square-o-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"tog_text_bq_746873\">Expand<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To see the relevant CBS transcripts, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsbusters.org\/blog_attachment\/2025-03-12-CBS-ENPlus-EPAChanges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(for March 12\u2019s\u00a0<em>CBS Evening News Plus<\/em>) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsbusters.org\/blog_attachment\/2025-03-14-CBS-MorningsPlus-EPAChanges.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(for March 14\u2019s\u00a0<em>CBS Mornings Plus<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Environmental Journo Slams Trump EPA: We Have \u2018Less Than 10 Years\u2019 to Save Planet. During the \u201cBy the Way\u201d segment on Friday\u2019s\u00a0CBS Mornings Plus, CBS environmental correspondent David Schechter decried the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Administrator Lee Zeldin by giving away the game on the climate alarmists by reupping a line that\u2019s\u00a0been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econuts","category-stupid-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108400,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108399\/revisions\/108400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}