By Sophie HartleyIndianapolis StarJuly 25, 2025Last week the Trump administration eased pollution regulations for dozens of industrial sites across the country that spew toxic emissions — two of which operate inside Indiana.Across a series of four proclamations, the White House gave the roughly 90 facilities — chemical manufacturers, sterilization facilities, power plants — an additional two years to meet hazardous air pollution rules set by the EPA under the Biden administration.The new proclamations will allow certain facilities to keep operating under the EPA’s old regulations until roughly 2028 and 2029, although individual deadlines vary.In Indiana, a chemical manufacturing plant in Mount Vernon, SABIC Innovative Plastics, and a medical equipment sterilization facility in Ellettsville, operated by Cook Medical, both received extensions.
But these were not the only businesses, they are only the Indiana business, a total of 90 businesses were exempted!
The government claims "that meeting compliance is too burdensome/expensive to the business but not meeting the compliance levels can be very burdensome to the health of nearby communities," Gabriel Filippelli, a biochemist and urban health researcher at Indiana University, wrote to IndyStar in an email.
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The American Chemistry Council, which represents manufacturers like SABIC, maintained the cost of meeting pollution regulations could exceed $50 billion, per a partially filled records request that the IndyStar obtained from the EPA.
And how much is a human life worth... is that figured into the bottom line?
It isn’t yet clear if or how the administration will address the potential public health impacts of two-year exemptions. And while it's hard to gauge exactly how two additional years of non-compliance will impact communities downwind of pollutants, the exemption "equals two years of potentially profound impacts on community health," according to Filippelli.
Our lives are only collateral damage to Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign.
Oh... and one last question... how much did they donate to his campaign?
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