Trump Rolls Back EPA Oversight in Midwest, Favoring Polluters
SAUGET, IL — Mamie Cosey and those living near this tiny, industrial village on the banks of the Mississippi River spent years wondering what poisons spewed from the three billowing stacks of a waste incinerator plant they all smell from their front porches.
Just two days before President Barack Obama left office, his Environmental Protection Agency ordered the stacks continuously monitored for arsenic, lead, mercury and other harmful metals that the 78-year-old Cosey blames for the health problems of her three great-grandchildren.
It was a victory that took local environmental groups more than a decade to secure.
But the French owner of the Veolia North America plant, which argues the daily monitoring is too restrictive and unreliable, knew Obama’s EPA didn’t have the last word. Donald Trump’s EPA did.
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