2025

Rollin’ Coal!

One year in on Trump’s ‘Toxic First’ Agenda and the MAGA assault on environmental law.

They call it Rollin’ Coal — when you retrofit your diesel truck (and they are always trucks) to emit more pollution. A lot more. You may have seen the pictures: big dark clouds of fine particulates and a bounty of air toxics — a big f*#ck you to Prius drivers, environmentalists, and, well, all of …

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