The Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 after widespread concern about pollution and its effects on human and animal life. For a half-century, they’ve been focused on fighting corporations on behalf of regular people, with their accomplishments including eliminating lead from gasoline, the recovery of the ozone layer, and a ban on harmful pesticide DDT.
But, sadly, those days are well and truly over. This shouldn’t be a surprise, as under Donald Trump, a government organization telling private corporations what they can and can’t do cannot be tolerated.
