Ed Markey: “today, Donald Trump's Department of Energy announced the largest deregulatory effort in the Department of Energy's…”

“today, Donald Trump's Department of Energy announced the largest deregulatory effort in the Department of Energy's history, with 47 regulations in the Department of Energy slashed in one fell swoop in the name of freedom on the same day that the House Ways and Means Committee proposed to slash clean energy tax credits and just a few days after the House Energy and Commerce Committee proposed to destroy critical programs that reduce hazardous air pollution in exchange for fast-tracking dirty fossil fuels. This isn't one big beautiful bill, as Donald Trump calls it; it is a big billionaire bailout--that is what this whole thing is about--and the only freedom this announcement guarantees is the freedom to pollute, overcharge, and mislead the American people. So let's be clear. These attacks are not common sense. These attacks on energy policy--on the environmental policy of the United States--is not common sense; it is nonsense which they are trying to sell. They are not about choice; they are about giving fossil fuel corporations and manufacturers a license to pollute on the one hand and to be profiteers on the other. This is not deregulation; it is the desecration of decades of bipartisan progress on public health and on the truth. Republicans are willing to throw $420 billion in clean energy investments and 400,000 jobs in red and blue States right down the drain. This would be a disaster for our economy and good-paying jobs.…”