Trump’s disasters with environment February 28, 2021

Alan Peterson, MD, PSR Member | LNP

The Boston Globe recently published an article on what history will look back on, in addition to former President Donald Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its hundreds of thousands of deaths. The “quieter” health crisis was Trump’s far-reaching rollback of environmental and occupational safeguards that resulted, per the Boston Globe, in more than 22,000 deaths during Trump’s term alone.

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