DAILY KOS: Trump exempted some of the nation’s biggest polluters from air quality rules. All it took was an email.

By Mark Olalde for ProPublica In March 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act, the bedrock environmental law estimated to have prevented thousands of premature deaths. All they had to do was ask.

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ProPublica May 9, 2026 at 11:00PM From Daily Kos