President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to keep California from having stricter-than-average vehicle emission standards. That was just one of the challenges discussed this week by the Bay Area Air District Board of Directors.

The board reviewed the impacts of cuts to federal programs and other regulatory obstacles coming from new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin. Last month, Zeldin announced the biggest deregulatory action in history, including 31 specific actions, many of which impact air quality.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.