--- title: Donald Trump Needs to Keep Promises, Says Former EPA Aide description: The head of Trump’s EPA transition team warned the White House to live up to its promises on energy and the environmental in remarks Friday canonical: https://time.com/4712734/donald-trump-myron-ebell-epa-climate-change-paris-agreement/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-24T22:32:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:01:49.982Z article:section: Politics og:title: Former EPA Aide Wants President Trump to Roll Back Climate Regulations ASAP og:description: "The people who elected Donald J. 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Brief is TIME's Washington newsletter, written by senior correspondent Philip Elliott. It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. It reaches 85,000 subscribers with a 37.0% open rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Justin Worland / Washington](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland / Washington Senior Correspondent Mar 24, 2017 10:32 PM UTC  Myron Ebell, former head of U.S. President Donald Trump's EPA transition team, arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, U.K., on Jan. 31. Myron Ebell, former head of U.S. President Donald Trump's EPA transition team, arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, U.K., on Jan. 31.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Justin Worland / Washington](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland / Washington Senior Correspondent Mar 24, 2017 10:32 PM UTC A member of President Donald Trump’s transition team says he needs to do more to roll back climate regulations — and fast. Myron Ebell, Trump’s former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition chief, said Friday at a conference held by the Heartland Institute that he was “anxious” for Trump to [fulfill his promise](http://time.com/4349309/donald-trump-bismarck-energy-speech) to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and undo the scientific and legal basis for regulating carbon dioxide emissions. Trump has barely been in office for two months, but he and Republicans in Congress have already overturned several Obama-era environmental regulations and proposed a massive budget cut at the EPA. Trump promised throughout his presidential campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the [Paris Agreement](http://time.com/4146764/paris-agreement-climate-cop-21), an international deal aimed at keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2°C (3.6°F) by 2100 and the issue continues to resonate with his supporters. But Trump is [reportedly](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump.html?%5Fr=0) considering keeping the deal thanks to pressure from his daughter Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Ebell also criticized Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for his defense of the Paris Agreement. “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson think it’s really nice to be able to go to international meetings and pal around with his fellow foreign ministers,” he told the Heartland Institute’s annual climate change conference. “Rex Tillerson may be from Texas and he may have been CEO of Exxon, but he’s part of the swamp.” Ebell also listed the carbon dioxide endangerment finding, the legal underpinning of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, as an issue where Trump needs to be pressured. Such a move would require the EPA to come up with a scientific argument for why carbon dioxide does not hurt human health. “At some point it needs to be pointed out to President Trump and his administration that the people who elected Donald J. 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