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Trump's environmental assault begins

Here's how activists envision the fight ahead.

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Emily Atkin
Nov 12, 2024
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Climate protesters pose during a demonstration against Trump on June 4, 2019. Photo by Isabel Infantes/AFP vis Getty Images.

Ever since Republican President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the agency’s singular mission has been “to protect human health and the environment.”

But on Monday, Trump’s choice to be the next E…

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