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Air pollution denial during a pandemic, why not?

Trump’s EPA has rejected restrictions on fine particulate matter, its latest Big Tobacco-like move in the war on public health.

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Emily Atkin
Dec 09, 2020
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Everyone loves to talk about Trump’s climate change denial, coronavirus denial, and election results denial. There’s been less talk about his air pollution denial—and how all of it stems from Big Tobacco’s strategy to deny and suppress scientific evidence about public health threats.

That’s the subject of my latest column for MSNBC, republished with perm…

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