The think the rules that are being repealed show the dangers of building your policies on sand, which is what the Obama administration did,” Ebell said. “These are not laws that he’s repealing, it’s regulations that go far beyond the laws in most cases. And in fact, most of the agenda of the Obama administration had very little to do with improving the environment,” Ebell added. “It had to do with an ideological agenda which he tried to, you know, institutionalize through executive order and regulation and President Trump is going to sweep that away and get down to the basic core values and mission of the , which is protecting the environment rather than increasing its control over people and the economy. I think the  has gone far beyond its mission under the Obama administration, and I think re-concentrating the agency on its core mission of protecting the environment and improving our environmental quality, rather than a huge climate regime, which has very little to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions or atmospheric concentrations globally but has a lot to do with slowing down the economy through raising energy prices. I think that’s going to be swept away. And I think people should realize that Congress hasn’t authorized any of these programs.