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Benji Jones @ Vox 1 place · 02/21/2025 10:50 EDT

Trump’s job cuts at this overlooked agency put every American at risk

President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans.    Those resources don’t just appear. They come from nature. Freshwater mussels, clams, and aquatic vegetation, for example, filter rivers and streams and provide clean places to swim and habitat for […]

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