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The Campaign kicked off with a die-in at EPA headquarters, Washington, D.C., on September 18, 20205
REQUIEM FOR THE EPA
REQUIEM FOR THE EPA
We are mourning the EPA.
We are mourning the EPA.
Administrator Lee Zeldin has ripped out the heart of the Agency, eliminating all the major rules to protect our health and environment, and firing four thousand staff. Hundreds of thousands of people will needlessly die from pollution, and our planet will become ever more uninhabitable.
All in the service of the oil and gas industry.
We demand that the People’s EPA be revived. Administrator Zeldin must:
● preserve the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to health
● restore the Office of Research and Development and reinstate all 1,100 scientists
● reopen all environmental justice offices and reinstate all 200 staffers.
● reinstate all 139 EPA “dissidents” who publicly denounced the administrator’s actions that are destroying the Agency
Or he must be removed.
View the video of the action here
IN LESS THAN A YEAR:
Zeldin has rolled back
31 public health and environmental regulations, including rules under the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and greenhouse gas limits.
Zeldin has scrapped
the stricter limits on mercury and toxic air emissions from coal plants.
Zeldin has terminated
$20 billion in climate grants designed to fund clean energy projects, create jobs, and reduce energy costs. Their termination halts clean energy deployment, disrupts investment, and delays emissions reductions.
Zeldin has cut
4000 EPA staff, back to 1980s levels.
Zeldin has dismantled
the Office of Research and Development, with $300 million cut from the fiscal 2026 budget and 1,500 staff displaced.
Zeldin has lifted
tight drinking water limits on “forever” chemicals.
Zeldin has permitted
coal plants to bypass mercury and other pollution limits by simply emailing the agency for exemptions.
Now Zeldin is trying to eliminate
the Endangerment Finding, the foundational determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health.
The people lose:
$250 billion per year in public health costs
200,000 premature deaths through 2050, 10,000 more asthma attacks per day
The oil and gas companies win:
Billions per year in savings
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