Officials who led the EPA under three past presidents said the current administration is threatening both environmental protection and economic growth.

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

Environmental protections rolled back Fifty-five years after the Nixon administration created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Trump administration is changing the agency’s priorities. It's a move critics say will worsen the environment for all Americans.