If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor and minority communities that face "disproportionately high levels of pollution.

And EPA plans to overhaul the Biden administration’s “social cost of carbon,” a metric used to assess the cost of climate change. On his first day in office, Trump ordered EPA to weigh eliminating the “social cost of carbon” from regulatory decisions and to consider the legality of the “endangerment finding.”

ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos talks to former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on the Trump administration’s rollback of clean air and water protections.