Like your crazy uncle who spends his days yelling at the TV from the chair that no one else is allowed to sit in, Donald Trump is a man of many convictions. One of them is that climate change is a hoax created by China in order to hurt the United States. Another, that government regulations serve no purpose other than to eat into corporate profits. And of course, there’s the one about how sticking it to Barack Obama at every turn, even if it means turning the environment into a urinal cake or killing 1,400 Americans a year, is his purpose on Earth. As such, since entering office, he’s diligently worked to destroy Obama-era laws intended to combat climate change. In August, his Environmental Protection Agency proposed letting cars and trucks release an additional 321 million to 931 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The same agency unveiled a proposal to allow coal-burning plants to regulate themselves, and around the same time, we learned that the administration wants to make asbestos, that cancer-causing material much beloved by the president, great again. And while other aspects of the president’s agenda, like health care, have suffered under the weight of staffers who have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to policy-making, the White House is apparently just getting started rolling back rules meant to protect human health and the planet.

The latest, according to The New York Times, is a plan to make it “significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.” The proposal, which may come as early as this week, would weaken a 2016 requirement that companies perform inspections for methane leaks every six months and repair any leaks within 30 days, by only making oil and gas drillers check for leaks once a year—and in some cases every two years—and take 60 days to make repairs. In addition, companies operating in states with their own methane standards would be allowed to follow those and ignore federal rules, which would delight firms located in places like Texas, where pollution standards are more lenient.

Shockingly, environmental advocates are unhappy about the news, given that methane “is around 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere,” with one-third of methane pollution coming from oil and gas companies. California Governor Jerry Brown called the proposal “insane,” “border[ing] on criminality,” and “the most obvious and dangerous and irresponsible action by Mr. Trump,” which, he acknowledged “[is] saying quite a lot.” But perhaps Gov. Brown is not taking the upside into account! Per the Times: