He Grew Up In An Era When The East River Was A Sewer. He Learned Nothing.

Trump and His Administration are Literally Trashing Our World

As a child in the 1970s, I witnessed firsthand the environmental degradation that necessitated these protections. On car rides into Albany from our home in Old Chatham, NY, I watched smokestacks belching dark plumes on both sides of the river. Even at seven years old, flipping through my Ranger Rick magazines, I understood why Bald Eagles had vanished from the Hudson River — habitat loss and DDT poisoning had devastated their populations.

The dismantling of environmental protections under the Trump administration represents one of the most aggressive assaults on public health in modern American history. Five decades of bipartisan progress that reduced air pollutants by 78% since 1970 through landmark legislation like the Clean Air Act is being systematically obliterated with shocking speed. EPA Administrator Zeldin’s celebration of what he called “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history” reveals the administration’s true priorities: corporate profits ove…