There are some fairly obvious reasons for this. One is that the Obama EPA’s mission was not really to protect the environment. It was to use environmental issues as an excuse to beat up the business community with lawsuits, investigations and regulatory delays. If you really want to clean things up, there’s a lot you can do and there’s money available to do it. The result of doing so successfully, which no Democrat ever wants, is that businesses can build, grow and expand.
While the left/media wails about the Trump EPA wanting to trash the planet, what it’s actually doing is decidedly the opposite: