Trump Says EPA to Sanction San Francisco Over Homeless Pollution
A homeless man near the San Francisco Giants stadium.
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President Donald Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency would issue a notice of violation within a week to San Francisco, alleging that the city’s homeless population had increased ocean pollution, including needles washed out to sea from sewers.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way back from California that there was a “tremendous” amount of pollution entering the ocean around San Francisco because of the homeless. He did not provide reporters any substantiation for the claim.