Trump must trash Biden’s radical ‘environment justice’ rules on Day 1

Some of Biden administration's most pernicious policies were enacted via executive orders and other non-legislative maneuvers.

Julian Zelizer : The Trump administration has the chance to make fast changes when it comes into office Jan. 20 .

He says Biden 's environmental-justice agenda is a Trojan horse designed to smuggle unpopular social goals into broadly supported environmental programs.

Zelizer says the new administration should disband the White House Office of Environmental Justice .

For its part, Congress will need to begin the painful work of trimming back these monstrously bloated programs. Trump and his team should expect intense pushback as it starts dismantling the EJ juggernaut. The media will portray each step as a betrayal of environmental values. But his administration should be clear on this point: the environmental-justice paradigm — which buries green initiatives in bureaucracy and diverts money to left-wing activism — is the real enemy of environmental progress. James B. Meigs is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute . Adapted from City Journal ..