Since Robert Mueller handed over his Trump–Russia report, much of the conversation surrounding the president has been about whether or not he (seemingly very clearly) tried to obstruct justice and should be impeached. But, of course, attempting to halt an investigation into his own shady behavior isn’t the only disturbing thing the president has done of late. Between his lunatic ravings about Joe Biden and an effort to charge refugees fleeing violence a fee to get into the country, Trump this week devoted some time to one of his favorite pet causes: destroying the environment and prioritizing corporate profits over human lives.

On Thursday, the administration announced that it was weakening offshore drilling rules that were put in place in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 people and triggered the biggest ocean spill in U.S. history. Naturally, officials have tried to claim that by gutting safeguards put in place by Trump’s predecessor, they’re actually making things safer, just like their plan to let coal plants regulate themselves. “Today’s final rule puts safety first, both public and environmental safety, in a common sense way,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement. “Incorporating the best available science, best practices and technological innovations of the past decade, the rule eliminates unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining safety and environmental protection offshore.” According to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, a division of the Interior Department, the changes will also conveniently save the gas and offshore oil industry nearly $1 billion over the next decade. Lobbying groups had complained that the Obama-era rules were “overly burdensome” and, obviously, Team Trump was more than happy to alleviate those burdens. Last May, the administration made a point of noting that rules could be “amended or removed to reduce significant burdens on oil and natural gas operators” (while noting that it would, of course ensure “safety and environmental protection”). That meant eliminating a requirement that pollution and safety equipment be inspected by independent auditors that had been certified by the bureau—a requirement that had been established by a bipartisan commission after the BP disaster. Now, oil companies are allowed to use “recommended practices” set by, wait for it, the oil industry to ensure safety equipment properly works. The industry’s recommended practices “are simply that—they make recommendations but don’t require anything,” Nancy Leveson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who served as a senior adviser to the presidential commission, told the Post. “The documents are filled with ‘should’ instead of ‘must,’” she said.