Trump’s henchmen throughout the government are destroying everything
He says he loves clean air and water and that American has the cleanest in the world as his answer to whether or not climate change exists.
The Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems, according to interviews with local officials, water utilities and their lobbyists.
Cities have long complained about the cost of meeting federal requirements to upgrade aging sewer systems, many of which release untreated waste directly into waterways during heavy rains — a problem that climate change worsens as rainstorms intensify. These complaints have gained new traction with the Trump administration, which has been more willing to renegotiate the agreements that dictate how, and how quickly, cities must overhaul their sewers.
The actions are the latest example of the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back nearly 95 environmental rules that it has said are too costly for industry or taxpayers. That list grew on Thursday, when the administration stripped clean-water protections from wetlands, streams and other waterways.
Our air and water are still polluted but they are much better than they would have been if those environmental rules had not been put in place, sometimes as long ago as 50 years ago.
He’s clueless about all of this but he ha strong opinions anyway based upon the fact that he’s had to fill out a lot of forms for the environmental impact of some of his development deals. He didn’t like that. So he’s given the green light to his henchmen to destroy the environment.
I don’t know how long it will take to even find everything they’ve done much less reverse it. That will be a huge job for a new Democratic administration.