Under Donald Trump the EPA is being systematically hobbled. How has the world’s premier environmental research and regulatory organisation come to work against its very mission, asks Brian Owens, and what are the global consequences for health?
For decades, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not only safeguarded the natural resources of the United States—ensuring that the air its citizens breathed and the water they drank was clean—but also provided a blueprint of environmental regulation for the rest of the world. For the past year, however, President Donald Trump has been systematically chipping away at the agency’s ability to monitor and regulate pollution. Read more in BMJ.