Michael R. Bloomberg & Gina McCarthy

How Trump’s EPA Is Making Covid-19 More Deadly

A respiratory pandemic is no time to roll back air-pollution rules.

Keep the skies blue.

Photographer: Dane Rhys/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump has failed in multiple ways to lead an effective fight against the coronavirus.

Among the most troubling is his push to increase air pollution in the midst of an unprecedented respiratory pandemic — jeopardizing people’s ability to survive it — while the nation’s attention is focused on the emergency at hand.