FACT CHECK: Trump Let Polluters Off the Hook for Putting Harmful Chemicals Into Our Air and Water 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – JD Vance claims that Donald Trump believes in clean air and clean water, but Trump holds the worst environmental record of any president in U.S. history: 

• FACT: Trump gutted more than 125 environmental protections, including “bans on toxic chemicals known to pose serious health threats” and critical safeguards against noxious chemicals in the air we breathe and water we drink. 

• FACT: Trump allowed corporate polluters to pump chemicals linked to cancer and brain damage into our air and water, disproportionately hurting children. 

• FACT: Trump rejected a ban on a pesticide that “has been linked to neurological damage in children, including developmental disorders in toddlers.”

• FACT: Trump reversed protections against chemicals “that have been found to cause miscarriages; reduced male fertility; and damage to the liver, kidneys, and immune and nervous systems.”

• FACT: The Guardian: “Second Trump term could boost toxic ‘forever chemicals’, experts warn.”

• FACT: As Trump bowed to the chemical and fossil fuel industries, his own EPA was often forced to concede that the moves would cost thousands of American lives.

• FACT: Project 2025 would slash the EPA’s capabilities to protect the public, reduce climate pollution, and end or weaken essential environmental and public health protections.