The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday, October 23, that in the past fiscal year it finalized deregulatory actions generating more than $1.6 trillion in savings for the American people — a figure the agency says exceeds what past administrations achieved over entire terms across all agencies combined.
"In this past year, the Trump EPA finalized an estimated $1.6 trillion in deregulatory savings for American families and businesses, all while maintaining strong environmental protections," said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. "The Trump EPA is proving you can lower costs, restore consumer choice, and protect the environment at the same time."
The savings cover fiscal year 2026, from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026, and were calculated under the agency's required regulatory impact analyses. They are driven in large part by two actions: the February 2026 rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and all greenhouse-gas emission requirements on vehicles that followed it — estimated at more than $1.3 trillion in savings, including roughly $2,400 per new vehicle — and the September 2026 repeal of most power-plant greenhouse-gas requirements, estimated at about $310 billion.
To highlight the figures, the EPA launched a new webpage and video under its "Powering the Great American Comeback" initiative. The agency also noted that in 2025, Congress passed and the president signed six Congressional Review Act resolutions permanently nullifying prior EPA actions, including the methane fee on energy producers and California's electric-vehicle mandate waivers.
By the end of the Biden administration, EPA rules accounted for more than $1.3 trillion of roughly $1.8 trillion in added cumulative federal regulatory costs — an estimated $10,000 per household, according to the agency.
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