The Environment
You think bad air on the race course is bad? At least you won’t get sick from it…
I wish there were no reasons to post these alarming environmental stories, and in a better world, without a psychopath leading this country, there wouldn’t be reasons to print them because they wouldn’t exist. But they do, and I want you to know about them. Information is power.
In March 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act, the bedrock environmental law estimated to have prevented thousands of premature deaths. All they had to do was ask.
No rigorous application was needed. An email, which they had until the end of the month to send, would suffice.
Within two weeks, executives across major industries began flooding an inbox set up to receive and funnel requests from the Environmental Protection Agency to the White House. They asked that their facilities be excused from expensive Clean Air Act requirements, relief that would save their companies money but pollute the air breathed by millions of Americans. Photo by Charlie Riedel | Credit: AP.
Please read on.
