text: There’s a much-memed scene from Nineties action masterpiece, Desperado — Antonio Banderas’ El Mariachi and Salma Hayek's Carolina striding off as the backdrop ignites into a grenade-fueled fireball — which has come to mind intermittently in the past few weeks.
  It’s happened when I’ve been doom-scrolling on the frenzied final power moves of the Trump administration: The rash of firings of senior defense officials, the drip-drip denigration of democratic norms and the last drive-by on environmental and climate protections.
  It’s been four long years for the environment under the Trump administration. Since the very start, loyalists appointed at various federal agencies began a sweeping agenda that has amounted to more than 100 rollbacks on rules and policies that protect our air, water, lands and wildlife, in favor of relaxing standards for those using toxic chemicals and spewing carbon emissions.
  At the heart of the effort has been the Environmental Protection Agency, which a former coal lobbyist was installed to lead in February, perhaps to work through lobbyists’ wishlists.