Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

Environmental protections rolled back Fifty-five years after the Nixon administration created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Trump administration is changing the agency’s priorities. It's a move critics say will worsen the environment for all Americans.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the ‘biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.’ Administrator Lee Zeldin’s proposals include a call to upend the basis for the EPA's climate change actions and impact rules on emissions limits,