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As President Donald Trump sees it, environmental regulations that attempt to improve efficiency and address climate change only make products more expensive and perform worse. He has long blamed efficiency regulations for his frustrations with data-offer-url=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/politics/trump-americans-flushing-toilets-intl” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/politics/trump-americans-flushing-toilets-intl"}” href=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/politics/trump-americans-flushing-toilets-intl” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>things like toilets and data-offer-url=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-makes-americas-showers-great-again/” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-makes-americas-showers-great-again/"}” href=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-makes-americas-showers-great-again/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>showerheads. He began his second term in office to “ data-offer-url=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/"}” href=”https://archive.is/o/8iBcA/https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>unleash prosperity through deregulation.”
But there’s at least one big way that American…
