The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering granting an exemption from air pollution standards to U.S. Steel—one of the largest steel manufacturer in the country. The exemption, which would be for one of the company's production facilities in Pennsylvania, came after the Trump administration invited companies to seek written permission to break compliance with the Clean Air Act in March. It's the latest in a string of actions this administration has taken to gut air quality protections—including a sweeping rollback of power plant pollution limits recently announced, which weakens standards for mercury, carbon, and other toxic emissions.

It also exposes the toxic hypocrisy of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda—a cornerstone of President Donald Trump's reelection platform championed by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While this........

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