Trump’s EPA Will Let You Get Cancer So Polluters Can Profit
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Washington, DC – Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving to eliminate protections that prevent manufacturing facilities from dumping a cancer-causing gas into our air. The protection being rolled back has been shown to reduce cancer risk by 92%. Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have already taken dozens of pro-polluter actions, and this is just their latest move to eliminate the protections that keep our air clean and our families healthy.
Climate Power Senior Advisor Alex Witt issued the following statement: “Trump’s EPA might as well be renamed the Exempt Polluters Agency, because it has fully abandoned its mission to protect us. Trump had already taken dozens of pro-polluter actions, and now he and Zeldin are allowing companies to dump cancer-causing gas into our air. Trump is making it easier for corporate polluters to make us sick, all while padding their bottom line.”
Trump is allowing corporate polluters to dump toxic chemicals in our air that make us sick, all while padding their bottom line:
- Trump’s EPA repealed the endangerment finding, which obligated the federal government to protect communities from harmful air pollution that drives climate change and fuels extreme heat and dangerous storms, as well as illnesses such as asthma.
- Trump’s EPA gutted 31 pollution and public health protections that save $275 billion and prevent 30,000 deaths annually.
- Trump’s EPA weakened protections against pollution from gas-fired power plants that create smog that worsens health conditions such as asthma.
- Trump’s EPA weakened mercury protections—giving coal plants free rein to emit dangerous pollutants into the air, leaving families to pay the price with higher health care costs and more illnesses.
- Trump’s EPA reversed more than 40 years of precedent by no longer accounting for the value of health and lives saved when setting standards for toxic air pollution.
- Trump’s doubling down on dirty, expensive coal spiked air pollution in 2025.