Another "gift" from the Trump administration

[packman]

A new study shows that air quality in the United States suffered between 2016 and 2018, after seven straight years of improvement starting during the first year of Barack Obama's administration.

The rise in pollution— which data shows started in 2016, just before Donald Trump took office and after years of economic recovery in the United States — has led to thousands of premature deaths across the country, according to the economists from Carnegie Mellon University who studied Environmental Protection Agency data from those time periods.

“That increase was associated with 9,700 premature deaths in 2018,” wrote Karen Clay and Nicholas Muller in a new paper detailing their research


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-air-quality-pollution-trump-obama-deaths-epa-a9168716.html?utm_source=reddit.com

[Mike 03]

1. Amazing.

I actually thought it would take scientists a few years to project the number of deaths that would result from these deregulations, but here we already have some stats.

This deserves to be a headline story, but will probably get lost in the hemorrhage of news.

Simply devastating. Thanks for posting this.

[nykym]

2. Now if he would only shut

his BF mouth maybe the air quality would level off.