To President Trump and some of his friends, a clean environment seems to be an afterthought. This is a 20th-century mindset that I found typical when I first started to work on environmental issues in 1975 but has become less common with time. In the 1980s, we learned that pollution was not simply unpleasant but could be deadly. That exposure to toxic chemicals could cause cancer. Most Americans understand that their family’s health requires clean water and clean air. Under the guise of regulatory efficiency and the priority of infrastructure construction to bring back the economy, the Trump Administration has devoted the early days of June to a relentless attack on environmental regulation. They also seem to think that the point of building infrastructure is profits and job creation, rather than the recurring benefits of public capital investments.
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