Air Quality Improved During Trump Years, EPA Chief Says (1)

The nation’s air quality improved during the Trump administration’s first three years, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told Michigan’s Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.

But an American Lung Association official argued that the improvements were due to regulations already in place before President Donald Trump took office.

Emissions of lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and particulate matter dropped 7 percent between 2017 and 2019, Wheeler said, citing the most recent monitoring data. The EPA uses the six pollutants as measures of U.S. air quality.

“This clean air progress proves that when EPA focuses on its core mission ...