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📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel. This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton. Link to our story below ⤵️

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.. he is currently cutting all protections an rolling back for big corporations.. also opening up rescinding the Roadless Rule, which had previously protected areas of 59 million acres from commercial logging and road construction. ..consider supporting or sharing information with others 🇺🇸💪🏼💪🏽❤️💦

Our investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37x higher than what the facility reported in the past. The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)

propublica.orgAir Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than EstimatedThe Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these…

When they demonize regulations, it’s not to help mom and pop start a business, it’s about reducing consumer protections, OSHA, banking oversight, the EPA and more. It’s always about how to increase profits for corporations and the 1%.

We may be not understanding each other... Are you really saying that -- before, with regulations in place, there were jobs AND safe air standards, but now, with regulations lifted, there are jobs AND deadly air ... and that 'no city leader' would force the regulations to return?

I feel those effects in Findlay Ohio. Walk by the old Cooper tire now Goodyear and just smell what’s coming out. One can visually see the particulate dirt on homes in the neighborhood. What are we breathing?

Benzene is also highly flammable, though unlikely to ignite at those concentrations. The chances are still not 0. And when you do burn it, the fumes are highly toxic. Additionally, if your last name is Zene, it is considered poor form to name your child Ben.

Wealthy, corrupt aholes don't give a damn about the rest of us. Just as long as they can keep making money, it doesn't matter if the rest of us suffer, get sick or even die. Same as it ever was and the response should be the same too...EAT THE RICH