There’s a link early on to a separate, earlier page on epa.gov, which is also insane, which makes it clear that the “gold bars” are metaphorical. Someone allegedly said something about “throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” some sort of nugget of theoretical truth I guess being that a lot of people were trying to get as much money out the door as possible before Trump came in and destroyed everything, and then Newsmax and Breitbart seized on the opportunity to deliberately misunderstand the metaphor as something literal, and also make up a whole bunch of total bullshit out of the whole cloth.

I didn’t look too deep into it because it’s clearly all gibberish. What I just typed is as far as I went. But there are links on the page, if you have some mental fortitude and want to go adventuring. I honestly don’t think it’s worth much time to look into.