1/x Fascinating article. Lots of editorial snark, but the underlying point is important: Trump EPA prioritizing cleaning up the air & water, and produced MUCH GREATER RESULTS in actually cleaning up the environment.
Politico: “The EPA under Trump...” politico.com/news/magazine/…
Politico: “The EPA under Trump...” politico.com/news/magazine/…
2/x “...has showed what it can look like when an administration gets serious about cleaning up long-neglected sites. Some of these activists are voting Republican for the first time in their lives. Some have seen their backyards and communities finally cleaned up...”
3/x “...because of the Trump administration’s EPA. ‘I’ve been a Democrat all my life,’ Worley-Jenkins says. ‘Trump actually gives us money to clean up these sites that have been here forever,’ she says. ‘Obama talked a lot of crap, but did very little...’”
4/x “‘...And people don’t realize that. They want to praise him, but he didn’t do nothing. He didn’t do s###.’ The Trump administration’s efforts to prioritize the Superfund site in her home town have made her a believer. She’s getting into local politics [now] as a Republican.”
