Amid Major Deregulation, Trump Pursues Limited Environment Pitches

January 6, 2020
President Donald Trump and his allies enter the 2020 election season poised to tout their aggressive deregulatory record, even as they selectively try to promote a handful of water and toxics measures in an apparent bid to blunt possible defections from voters concerned about climate change and other environment issues. That dynamic has critics of the Trump administration acknowledging they must continue pressing their substantive criticism of his deregulatory policies -- and his repeated pledges to gut EPA’s budget –...


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