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BREAKING NEWS: The New York Times reported yesterday that Trump's Environmental Protection Agency will stop calculating the human health impacts of air and water quality standards. Instead,
the agency will reportedly only calculate industry costs.
Between 1999 and 2020, air pollution from coal-fired power plants killed nearly half a million Americans. This move is yet another example of Trump and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin putting
corporate polluters' profits over people's lives. Since Trump took office last year, we've been actively fighting his bad policies at every turn -- and we will keep fighting this and
every other environmental attack.
As we gear up for the year ahead, we want to say thank you for being part of the Sierra Club community. Your support is vital to our work protecting public health, preserving public
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The Trump regime isn't even trying to hide its plans to help corporate polluters make more money at the cost of our lives and our wallets. We're struggling to pay our grocery, medical,
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One of Trump's latest giveaways to his Big Oil donors and auto executives is currently underway. He wants to roll back the cost-saving standards that make our cars go farther on a gallon
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This winter, we're watching our heating costs skyrocket along with grocery prices and medical bills. But while the Trump administration sides with fossil fuel companies and drives up
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