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The administration’s positions on climate science and glyphosate show its anti-regulatory ideology taken to the extreme Scientists and physicians around the world were horrified when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its plan to rescind its conclusion that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, endanger the health and welfare of the American people.1 The EPA’s 2009 “endangerment” finding was a response to the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that found the EPA was required to regulate these pollutants if it concludes they are a threat to public health under the 1970 Clean Air Act. When the endangerment finding was officially repealed in February 2026,2 denying climate change’s danger and flying in the face of science, it released the agency from its legal obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. We might think that this is a fight over science, but, in announcing his attack on the endangerment finding, the EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, did not address a single scientific question.1 Rather Zeldin declared that he was driving a “dagger” into the regulatory state and promoting a new “Golden Age” of economic growth. “I am proud to deliver the single largest deregulatory action in US history on behalf of American taxpayers and consumers,” said Zeldin when …