Eliminating Environmental and Public Health Protections Harms the American Working Class

All Americans have a fundamental right to breathe clean air, drink safe water, and live in healthy communities. Yet the Trump administration and House Republicans are abandoning environmental protections and ending efforts to cut deadly pollution, all to enrich big polluters and billionaires at the expense of people’s health.

This series highlights how the Trump administration’s attack on environmental and public health protections will harm Americans’ health, including by increasing asthma attacks, cancer risks, and early deaths. These actions put everyone at risk, but they will hit working class, low-income, front-line, Black and Latino communities, children, older adults, and other vulnerable populations the hardest. Americans need a government that works for all people—not just billionaires and fossil fuel executives.