Lest you think that the Trump administration is concentrating on the Coronavirus, think again. Federal employees have been ordered to weaken automobile fuel efficiency standards, loosen controls on toxic ash from coal plants, relax restrictions on mercury emissions, and weaken the consideration of climate change in environmental reviews for most infrastructure projects.
Employees of the EPA and the Interior Department said that they were told that there would be no “slippage” of the rollbacks, virus or no virus. So Trump goes on television every night to tell lies and mislead the public about the Coronavirus, but in the meantime the gutting of environmental protections continues.
Of course, you won’t hear about this on Fox. You won’t hear about it on MSNBC or CNN either.
Info for this post was taken from Lisa Friedman, “President Presses Forward With Regulatory Rollbacks, New York Times, (March 20, 2020), p. A24.
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