President Trump mentioned clean air, emissions, and the Green New Deal, but failed to bring up climate change at his environmental event Monday.
For decades, the federal government has attempted to better prioritize equity in environmental initiatives. A new report highlights one area in which those efforts have fallen short.
And as usual, it's the communities that are least responsible for it that suffer the most.
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Half the senators lobbed the EPA chief softball questions; the other half blasted his attempts at deregulation.
Scott Pruitt has made Superfund site clean-up a priority, but the number of sites removed from the list in 2017 is on par with previous years.