Thom Hartmann: While Trump Struts Across the American Media Stage, Preening and Ranting, He Is Giving a Green Light to Toxic Polluters

March 31st 2020

By Thom Hartman

While Trump struts across the American media stage, preening and ranting and blaming, his billionaire buddies that he brought into the administration or who helped him get elected are executing the biggest daylight robbery in the history of America. All over the country there are giant repositories of toxic waste, which could be very expensive to dispose of. Some of these chemicals and waste products stored in giant tanks, typically near rivers, would cost companies over $1000 a pound to dispose of properly in high temperature furnaces. But now, Trump has suspended all environmental rules, so they can just go out and open the valves and pour out their poison. Poisonous waste from coal mines, gold mines, chemical manufacturing facilities, and even poison gases are, as you read these words, being poured into our rivers and air and soil, saving these companies billions in disposal costs while exposing all of America and the larger environment to a mass poisoning. America needs to learn what happens when Republicans run things. This is the story of the GOP over the last 40 years writ large.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of the War on Voting and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.