President Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to issue a warning to San Francisco because the city’s homeless population is polluting the ocean through waste washed through storm drains.
Trump announced the notice on Wednesday while attending a campaign fundraiser in California. The president also said Los Angeles is in “a terrible situation” but stopped short of saying the city is in violation, according to a pool report of Trump’s comments.
“You know, there’s tremendous pollution being put into the ocean because they’re going through what’s called the storm sewer,” Trump said, referring to Los Angeles and San Francisco. “We have tremendous things that we don’t have to discuss pouring into the ocean. You know there are needles, there are other things.”
“We’re going to be giving San Francisco, they’re in total violation, we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon,” Trump said, later specifying that the EPA will announce the notice in less than a week. “They’re in serious violation.”
“They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell,” Trump said. “These are great cities. And we can’t lose our great cities like this.”
