Trump Goes Full 'Shock Doctrine' As Pandemic Rages
The administration is pushing its pro-polluter agenda as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 rises.
By Alexander C. Kaufman and Chris D’Angelo
The White House chose the week the United States became the epicenter of a historic pandemic to virtually stop policing big polluters, privatize a bedrock federal food safety job, advance a mining road through a pristine swath of northern Alaska and revive a regulatory rollback so difficult to defend that the Trump administration abandoned the effort last year at the peak of a high-profile fight.
On Thursday afternoon, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would suspend enforcement of bedrock clean air and water laws, leaving the fossil fuel, chemical and agribusiness industries to police themselves amid a historic public health crisis.
Hours later, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a waiver allowing a private company to take over inspection duties at a Tyson Foods beef slaughterhouse.
By Friday morning, news broke that the administration was close to finalizing its plan to roll back Obama-era rules raising fuel-economy standards on new vehicles, resuming a fight that delighted the oil industry, divided automakers and revealed a double standard on states’ rights as the White House sought to bring California to its knees. And by midday, the administration published a final review of a proposed 211-mile road that would cut through a portion of Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and open up an area rich in copper, zinc and other minerals.
The efforts would be shocking if they weren’t so routine for an administration that began flaying environmental safeguards within days of its inauguration. But the actions took on a grave new tone as the administration’s backfooted response to COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, threw the nation into chaos.
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Assholes. 
Let's add a few food poisoning outbreaks, chemical and oil spills, and sickening water pollution to the mix! 
Let's just fuck up our food, water and air until no one will be alive in this republican hell we're floundering in! 
