Environmental Rollbacks
EPA deregulation, Clean Air Act rollbacks, and environmental protection reversals.
2026
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People
Key figures in Environmental Rollbacks
81 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States, 2025–present
Lee Zeldin
EPA Administrator (confirmed January 29, 2025)
Doug Burgum
Governor
Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator (D-RI), Ranking Member, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Joe Biden
Former President of the United States (original Technology Transitions Rule authorizer)
Lisa Murkowski
U.S. Senator (R-Alaska), 2025–present
Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Senator (R-WV), Chair, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Aaron Lukas
Principal Deputy DNI (July 2025–); Acting DNI from July 1, 2026
Abraham Williams
Tulsi Gabbard's husband; cinematographer
Andrew Taake
Jan. 6 defendant, pardoned January 2025, re-arrested February 2025
Bill Cassidy
U.S. Senator (R-Louisiana), 2025–present
Bill Nelson
Britany Visage
Daughter of Kristy Kerst; victim family advocate
Chellie Pingree
U.S. Representative (D-ME), Ranking Member, House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee
Chuck Schumer
Senate Minority Leader (D-NY), 2025–present
Cleave Simpson
Colorado Senate Minority Leader, R-Alamosa (prime Senate sponsor)
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser
Colorado Attorney General
Congress
David Doniger
Senior Strategic Director, Climate and Clean Energy Program, NRDC
DOE
Edmund Muskie
Edward Markey
U.S. Representative - MA
Elon Musk
Billionaire Influencer
Esmail Baghaei
Spokesperson, Iranian Foreign Ministry, 2025–present
Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence, January 2025 – June 30, 2026
grant recipients
Guillermo Ramirez
Criminal defendant; second competency-dismissal case cited in legislative debates
Harry Dunn
Retired U.S. Capitol Police officer and lead plaintiff in anti-weaponization fund lawsuit
Henry Jackson
Indira Talwani
U.S. District Judge, Massachusetts
Jake Auchincloss
U.S. Representative (D-MA), House Appropriations member
Janet Yellen
Treasury Secretary
Jared Polis
Governor of Colorado (2019-present)
Jarvis Caldwell
Colorado House Minority Leader, R-Yuma (prime House sponsor)
JD Vance
Vice President of the United States, 2025–present
Jeff Merkley
Member of Congress
Jennifer Dunbar
Director, Department of Energy Office of Electricity
Jennifer Turner
Executive Director, Bridges of Colorado
Jimmy Carter
Former President who signed the 1980 Refugee Act
Joe Manchin
Joel Lang
Criminal defendant; subject of the landmark competency dismissal that drove SB26-149
John Barrasso
U.S. Representative - WY
John Hickenlooper
U.S. Senator (D-CO)
John Roberts
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Judy Amabile
Colorado State Senator, D-Boulder (prime Senate sponsor)
Julie Kushner
Senior Advisor to the President, 2025–present
Julie McCluskie
Colorado House Speaker, D-Glenwood Springs (prime House sponsor)
Justice Kagan
Associate Justice
Keith Harris
Former Vice President
Kristi Noem
Former Homeland Security Secretary
Kyrsten Sinema
Lindsey Graham
U.S. Senator (R-South Carolina), 2025–present
Mark Kelly
U.S. Senator (D-Arizona), 2025–present
Mark Lepak
Meryl Kornfield
Washington Post reporter
Michael Bennet
U.S. Senator (D-CO), S.J.Res.139 sponsor
Michael Regan
EPA Administrator under President Biden (2021-2025)
Mike Simpson
U.S. Representative (R-ID), Chair, House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee
Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senator (R-KY)
Nancy Pelosi
U.S. Representative - California District 5
Nanette Barragan
U.S. Representative (D-CA), House Energy and Commerce Committee
Neil Gorsuch
Associate Justice
Paige Hallen Hanson
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, EPA
Pamela Bondi
U.S. Attorney General
Patrick Morrisey
West Virginia Governor
Patty Murray
U.S. Senator - Washington
Paul Friedman
Senior U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia (Clinton appointee, confirmed 1994)
Rand Paul
U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky), 2025–present
Ratcliffe
CIA Director
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States
Rob Bresnahan
U.S. Representative - PA District 8
Robert Byrd
Russell Vought
White House Budget Director
Samuel Alito
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Scott Holcomb
Sean Duffy
Acting NASA Administrator
Steve Witkoff
White House Special Envoy, 2025–present
Susan Collins
U.S. Senator (R-Maine), 2025–present
Tanya Chutkan
U.S. District Judge
Todd Blanche
Acting Attorney General of the United States (April 2026–present)
Vic Zanotti
President and CEO, Colorado Springs Utilities