The U.S. is marking Earth Day this week with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as the public face of a Trump administration plan to make our environment dirtier via deregulation, for example by allowing more power plants to emit more mercury and particulate matter as the president maintains a bizarre focus on revitalizing coal and unclean energy specifically. Happy polluted Earth Day!

A lot of this administration’s decisions to degrade our air and water aren’t easily reversible per se. A dismantling of scientific research, pharmaceutical development and the talent pipeline for high-skilled immigrants in those technical fields won’t easily be fixed.

Neither will be reinstating regulations and........

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