During the pandemic, Trump continues his roll-back of environmental regulations

In case you thought that President Trump has been sitting on his hands throughout this major global crisis, making the odd ill-informed and non-sensical pronouncement from time to time and then walking it back the next day, take heart: he has still been pursuing what he sees as his God-given mandate - to reverse out every good thing that Barack Obama ever did for the country.
The latest? He plans to drastically water down Obama's  changes to fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. This will have the effect of pumping nearly a billion more tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the lifetimes of these less-efficient vehicles, hurt public health, and significantly worsen the effect of America's leading source of carbon pollution at a time when we really need to be reducing it. A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official calls it the "first time an administration has pursued a policy that will net negative benefit for society and reduce fuel savings".
With a fine sense of irony, the EPA is claiming that it "will improve the US fleet's fuel economy", a claim they can only make at all because the change doesn't roll back the original Obama measure ALL the way, just MOST of the way. And, in an added irony, Trump and his emasculated EPA is using the COVID-19 pandemic as his excuse, defending the move as a much-needed boost to an economy crippled by the coronavirus outbreak.
This is just one of several moves to weaken environmental regulation in America that the Trump administration is pursuing while most people's attention is focussed on dealing with the fallout from the pandemic. Also, in the pipeline are moves to weaken regulations on toxic ash and mercury emissions, ensuring that future federal infrastructure projects will not have to take climate change considerations into account, removing punishments for oil and gas companies that "incidentally" kill birds during their operations, and limiting what scientific studies the EPA can use when writing or revising public health rules.
And finally, in what is being billed as a temporary emergency measure, but one that actually  has no time limit imposed on it, the EPA has completely suspended its enforcement of environmental laws during the coronavirus outbreak, giving companies carte blanche to pollute the air or water willy nilly so long as they can claim in some way that the violations were made as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. You can expect companies to take full adavantage of this measure, which is also being touted by the administration as being in the interests of public health.
I wonder if the EPA will ever recover from this time in the wilderness during the Trump years?