The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought the exemption, emails show.
Under rules put in place by the Biden administration, the facility’s owner, Freeport-McMoRan, would have been required to install technology to reduce its toxic emissions. But in October President Trump exempted the smelter from complying with limits on lead, arsenic, chromium and other hazardous pollutants for the next two years.
In 2024, the copper smelter emitted more than 11.6 tons of lead and 2.5 tons of arsenic, according to data the company reported to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
I got banned from like a dozen communities I never have, or will ever, interact with cause I don’t let the lazy cowards act all smug.
How’s trump been doing on Palestine? Really happy we all get to suffer so y’all can enjoy the smell of your own farts!
Fuck every single protest non voting coward!
The lead pollution helps build the conservative base.