This Earth Day, Environmentalists Should Be Celebrating. But They Are Not.

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Environmentalists are not celebrating this Earth Day. Inside the Environmental Protection Agency there is “disgust and frustration.” Outside, activists warn that President Trump’s proposal to cut the EPA budget by nearly one-third will “Make America Gag Again,” the costs of his policies “borne by people’s hearts and lungs,” especially “those who are poor and can’t fend for themselves.”

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