If you’re going to ignore the climate crisis until the north Atlantic comes surging up your driveway, you might as well do it with bells on. The Republicans are so deeply in the pocket of the fossil-fuel industry that they probably are choking on lint. So the fact that they’re discussing something as radical in its denial as this should surprise approximately nobody. From The New York Times:

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times. In its proposed regulation, the agency argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or to climate change because they are a small and declining share of global emissions. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, the agency said.

This is, of course, nonsense.

But in the United States, the power sector was the second biggest source of greenhouse gases, behind transportation, according to the most recent data available on the E.P.A. website. And globally, power plants account for about 30 percent of the pollution that is driving climate change.

EPA boss Lee Zeldin—whose qualifications for the job include being a career politician who lost a campaign for governor of New York—had a rough time of it in front of congressional committees last week. (He and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, had a heated exchange during the senator’s time to question him.) But these proposed changes are a perfect example of the administration’s blasé hand-waving of the climate crisis and why Zeldin is the perfect huckster to sell the country on bad air and rising seas.

The Trump administration is methodically uprooting policies aimed at curbing climate change, and the E.P.A. is at the epicenter of that effort. In recent weeks, Mr. Zeldin has shuttered offices responsible for regulating climate and air pollution, and has launched the repeal of more than two dozen regulations and policies. The agency is feeling pressure from the White House to finalize its deregulations by December, according to two people briefed on internal discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to describe them. That would be an extraordinarily fast pace. Rewriting regulations can typically take more than a year.

Break out the crayons, folks. We got some law writin’ to … cough … do.