President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt have pledged to reexamine landmark environmental policies and to repeal regulations. In their view, excessive regulations are harming US industry, and thus reducing regulation will be good for business. As Donald Trump has said, seemingly without irony, “We are going to get rid of the regulations that are just destroying us. You can’t breathe—you cannot breathe.”
s has become apparent, however, it is the changes Trump is proposing that are likely to make breathing more difficult. A central feature of his agenda is environmental damage: making the air dirtier and exposing people to more toxic chemicals. The beneficiaries, in contrast, will be a relatively few well-connected companies.
In pursuit of its wide-ranging environmental agenda, the administration has already reversed or proposed to reverse more than 60 environmental rules. The full extent of the effects on health has not been tabulated and is hard to quantify, but guesses can be made for some of the larger ones (see the Table).
The largest health […]
Here in Pennsylvania we have “bad air warnings for two northern counties until Monday”, according to the national weather service, with the warnings scrolling across the bottom of our television screens. I would say it is already too late for some areas to fix any problems that may occur. The weather service would not give any specifics about the warning, so we do not know what the warning meant, but it is not good, whatever it is. I have never seen the service give such a warning before last night.