A new study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives us some bad news. It shows fine particulate air pollution is getting worse. Between 2010 and 2016, this pollution had decreased, thanks to regulations put in place by the Obama administration.
But in 2017 and 2018, that air pollution got worse -- 5.5% worse in 2018 than it had been in 2016.
What is different in 2017 and 2018? A new Republican administration that has made it a point to put lobbyists in charge of the environment and deregulated what corporations must do to protect the environment. These Republicans seem to believe that we can have deregulated corporations and a clean environment. They are living in a dream world.
Corporations are not created to be good citizens and protect the environment. They have only one purpose -- to make as much money as possible. If a corporation can make a bigger profit by dumping more pollution in our air (and water), then that is what they are going to do.
How much longer will we put up with a Republican president and Congress members that don't care about the environment? How much dirtier do we want our air and water?
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