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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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Trump sells out the American people for personal profit every day. He's destroying the CDC and all of our nation's core health care institutions because he does not care about US. He's abandoning our NATO allies and Ukraine to please Vladimir Putin. Every word Trump utters is a lie. VOTE! #LockHimUp

The ultimate "externalities" report. It’s fascinating how we’ve transitioned from politics as a battle of ideas to politics as a literal biological hazard.

They'll never let a Dem become president, because that president would have them all jailed, citing the presidential/precedential importance to "national security".

Joe Biden spent his administration trying to find a cure for cancer. Trump, unless it’s him, could care less if he increases the odds of everyone else getting. What an awful human being, maybe the worst ever. Appreciate you for digging into this.

Shame if the roads and railroads to and from those places were pulled up by nothing more complicated than an excavator any major construction site has in abundance. All the People need to solve these problems are bulldozers and crowbars. Roads and railroads are easily pulled up. Slow to build.

Just disgusting. Every slime ball that wormed their way into the federal govt. will be removed under a democratic administration. Thank you for this in depth examination and we will put tighter regulations in place beginning right after the mid terms.

If this is what the “unitary “ presidency gets us, never again can we elect a person who espouses it. Every reporter needs to press this question to every candidate. Shame on you Bill Barr and all in the current administration.

Thank you for this important, well researched reporting. To hear these polluters say "Membership has its privileges" about buying off Trump while millions of families are exposed to cancerous air is just beyond the pale. The abject indifference to human suffering of this admin. is infuriating

Why don’t I see it on the front page this morning? Why does every awful this he does and every gaffe and stumble get a pass? Great reporting blocked by the Oligarchs who own the paper.

This is just super reporting. So thorough and irrefutable. The resulting by-product of how this admin is covered will surely change now that he is openly corrupt, according to NYT’s elite investigative team.

So Trump is exposing millions of Americans to toxic pollution, driving them away from vaccines, funneling money to Moscow by buying their diesel, selling an Alaskan gas field to a Russian company, and praising Putin while demonising Ukraine. Wonder when the penny will drop?

Well, since the times helped get him elected, I hope you mention the nyt's culpability somewhere in your article. The rest of us predicted this and your major scoop here isn't a surprise to anyone. We all assumed this would happen bc we weren't horny to sanewash him every day.

It bears repeating these "waivers" are invalid since the pedophile is disqualified from office for engaging in insurrection against the government. The executives involved will have to be punished for their existing violations, as well as for the bribery they engaged in to acquire these nullities.

Thank you for sharing this article. Short term thinking fueled by profit making is the rule with these companies. Maybe it should be a requirement that those who want unrestricted ability to pollute live in these hot spot communities.

Interesting how NYT seems to be printing more stories that don’t fit Republican/MAGA/Trump acceptable point of view. Almost like NYT owners decided to edge off that bandwagon just in case the country starts turning back toward democracy - where there’s less fondness for fascist supporting media.🤔

As I previously wrote, Trump has NEVER cared about the environment, his ONLY concern is what will benefit himself and corporations. #Imperative2VoteBlue

An American president is elected to look after the interests of the American people and to improve and protect their lives. Donald Trump, however, is concerned only with enriching himself, his family and his billionaire friends. Is that what the American people wanted?

Congratulations to the authors on some remarkable investigative journalism. Apparently, protecting 3.3 million Americans from cancer-causing pollution is an unreasonable burden on industry.

And here all the MAGA folks were so worried about their access to raw milk and refusing vaccines when all along their savior was letting cancer-causing pollutants into their air and water. Go figure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

. So much in this deep dive boils the blood But 1 big vein-popper for me was the # and severity of leaks, accidents, and sundry other cock-ups that *blasted*📈toxins & carcinogens into the environ IOW, *on top of* baseline (too high) ‘biz as usual‘ ☠️, these criminals fuck up xtra big…and often

Trump gave temporary waivers from Biden rules so extreme they'd have shut down American plants and shipped the jobs to China, the actual pollution champ. The Times calls that a scandal. East Palestine under Biden got a shrug.

And FT joins in this expose! bsky.app/profile/670r...

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Details on a wowzer of treasous deal: substack.com/@rajanmenon4... From the FT—a longish excerpt but worth your time if you follow the Trump administration’s dealings with Russia. “The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture has accused Russian energy giant Novatek of

secretly controlling the project, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership over fears it is violating US sanctions.The company, Polar Train LNG, is developing a gas export terminal on Alaska’s North Slope, part of a Trump administration initiative to

expand US energy exports to Asia and strengthen its position in global energy markets.The venture was launched with the involvement of Gentry Beach, an investor with ties to Donald Trump’s family. It has also featured in high-level negotiations between Washington and Moscow over potential

over potential business deals that could help secure an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the discussions. Polar LNG was launched in March with plans to repurpose a partially constructed Novatek gas terminal for installation in Alaska. The company sought

It is all so dreadful and stupid. All for money. Trump shows you what raw, unchecked capitalism does. It is a realistic morality play. Now if only people were not looking at their little screens playing games, gambling, or watching porn and cute cat videos we could do something about it.

Fantastic investigation. Exposes even MORE greed and disregard for life. This should be one of Dem candidates top talking points. (There are so many despicable things.) But surely everyone should be concerned about this.

Thank you for this story! I am unable to link the dots on the map or the colored font to a particular facility? (Although I’m pretty sure who the two are in northwest Indiana….)

During this investigation, we traveled to locations around the United States where President Trump has moved to ease pollution rules, including to Port Neches, Tx. where there is a middle school a few blocks from the chemical plant considered by the EPA the largest cancer threat nationwide.

What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)

Terrific article. I would have liked to see two more elements: a nut graph bluntly explaining that this is an example of how, under Trump, greed and corruption are easily triumphing over the public good; and a section on “How do we fix this?”

“How do we fix this?” 1. Get excavator. 2. Tear up all the roads going to or from these polluting factories. 3. Tear up all the railroads going to or from these polluting factories. 4. Tear up the power pylons holding the lines feeding the substations that power these factories. We can do it.

Those are not the factory owners’ roads. They’re ours. And we can choose the time and place we choose to provide roads to factory owners. We provide the roads. We allow the railroad companies to have rights of way on our land. We do not have to provide either. We allow power pylons. Those too.

"The Trump administration did not ask companies to present an exhaustive case for why they deserved a waiver from these new requirements. It was as easy as sending an email to the E.P.A. and invoking the obscure exemption language in the act, a provision that no president had ever used."

More of Trump's lies: "From day one, my administration has made it a top priority to ensure that America has among the very cleanest air and cleanest water on the planet. We want the cleanest air. We want crystal-clean water, and that’s what we’re doing and that’s what we’re working on so hard."

All while cutting funding for cancer research. The stink of the man and his administration will linger for decades in the lives of all of us. There will not be a single living being in our country left unscathed.

I actually had Trumper's literally arguing or telling me gas was higher when Biden was in office; "I gave up", instead I told them sorry you must have not known about or too stupid to know president Biden gave every Democrat gas cards out to every Democrat; "I only had to pay $1.85 a gallon"!

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