EPA Slams California Again, This Time Over Homeless Waste
- Trump has claimed that state’s homeless people posed a hazard
- Feud with California includes auto emissions, air pollution
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rapped California for allowing “piles of human feces” and other pollution tied to what it called the state’s “homelessness crisis” to foul nearby waterways, opening a new front in a Trump administration battle with the nation’s most populous state.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanded California outline its plans for tackling the problem in to Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday.