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Posted: 2020-02-04T20:31:55Z | Updated: 2020-02-04T20:31:55Z

President Donald Trump , a well-established serial liar , has been working in recent months to persuade the American public that his extreme anti-regulatory agenda is good for the planet and human health.

During a speech on the environment last July, Trump boasted about the work he and his team have done to preserve the nations incredible natural splendor. Asked in early January about climate change, a global threat that hes previously dismissed as a hoax , Trump said, Nothings a hoax about that. Its a very serious subject. And while addressing world leaders last month in Davos, Switzerland, the president declared that the United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth and were going to keep it that way.

As Trump greenwashes his record ahead of the 2020 election an effort that will almost certainly continue during Tuesday nights State of the Union address the administration is plowing ahead with an agenda that overwhelmingly benefits polluting industries at the expense of the climate, clean air and water, wildlife and public lands.

Ten of the countrys leading environmental groups, including Earthjustice and the League of Conservation Voters, issued a joint statement ahead of Trumps Tuesday speech condemning his unprecedented assault on our environment and the health of our communities.

No amount of his greenwashing can change the simple fact: Donald Trump has been the worst president for our environment in history, the groups wrote. Unfortunately, our children will pay the costs of this presidents recklessness.

In the first three years of Trumps tenure, the administration has reversed or is in the process of rolling back nearly 100 environmental rules and regulations, from replacing the Clean Power Plan to weakening the Endangered Species Act, according to a New York Times analysis .

Heres what hes done in just the first month of 2020 none of which are likely to get a mention tonight.