Posted on 04/05/2025 10:49:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to federal programs has delivered a considerable hit to the nation’s environment, but experts say its plans to repeal hard-won protections for clean air and water will also directly jeopardize Americans’ health — and their wallets.
Two new reports from environmental watchdog groups outline how the administration’s recent regulatory rollbacks, cuts to climate programs and promotion of fossil fuel production will significantly increase the cost of living for millions of people and bring about hundreds of thousands of premature deaths. That’s in contradiction to the claims made by Trump and his allies — including Elon Musk and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin — that they are gutting the nation’s climate programs in an effort to ease regulatory costs, lower taxes and “power the great American comeback.”
Instead, the rollback of some of the nation’s key environmental safeguards could lead to nearly 200,000 additional premature deaths in the next 25 years; cause more than 10,000 extra asthma attacks each day; and cost the public six dollars for every dollar supposedly saved by regulated industries, according to a recent analysis from the Environmental Protection Network, a D.C.-based group composed of more than 600 former EPA workers.
“We’ve never seen anything like the scale of the attack that we’re seeing on public health and at EPA in...
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Sheesh what a load of BS.
Hayley Smith of the Los Angeles Times has her HUHA.
OH NOES! The north pole is gonna melt!!!😲
The right question isn’t “What will it cost Americans?”, but “What will the benefit be to Americans and how much money will it save?”.
The air already feels dirty to my lungs and the water has a taste of sewage. Wait, that is an average day in New York City.
Be afraid, be very afraid!
Fear porn
Won’t cost us nothing. We need to forget all the “environmental” MALARKEY. Biden increased America’s carbon footprint by 50 million foreign freeloaders. He wasn’t worried about no “Climate Change”.
ARE THESE THE SAME IDIOTS THAT DECLARED THE RAIN THAT FALLS ON YOUR ROOF-—ON YOUR PROPERTY—— IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE SAVED FOR YOUR GARDEN???
Same for snow melt.
Gee, that’s about what homelessness and fentanyl will kill, gee where’s the crying over that issue Times?
BWAAAAHAHA!
Really? After the environmental disaster they created and experienced this past few months?
Still waiting to see the rise in mesothelioma from all that asbestos that went into the air from the fires they caused.
Chest waders on standby..
This is what makes grant money so great...you just come up with any answer you want. And another “great mind” gets grant money to dispute you.
Nothing because leftist rags are fear porn peddlers.
A new day, a new DEI I just got off the phone with. Couldn’t understand his name and when I tried explaining why I was calling for the 3rd time he said I was hollering at him. No, but nice cover up for his incompetence.
Trump should add no foreigners who can’t speak English to his EOs. I don’t want foreigners or inmates period who get access to my info.
Wait, what? She has her huha?!? Well, I’m glad she does but should we talk about it?
Hooray!
It is a shame that Barf Alerts have largely fallen out of favor at FR.
Unemployment?
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