The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released a 100-item “brag list” marking the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
“These are just a fraction of the environmental actions we have taken in the first 100 days. Our team at EPA is honored and motivated to fight for you and deliver results,” reads the EPA release.
The list includes such actions as expediting the cleanup of a nuclear-waste landfill in Missouri, completing the “largest wildfire response in agency history in Los Angeles,” and completing “FEMA mission assignments in Western Northern Carolina after Hurricane Helene and [in] Kentucky following flooding.”
The EPA, established in 1970 under President Richard Nixon, plays a major role in environmental stewardship.
Lee Zeldin, a former New York Republican congressman, leads the agency in the new administration….