What did Donald Trump claim about climate and energy on 8 Jul 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
last year, the agency completed more Superfund hazardous waste clean-ups than any year of the previous administrations and set records in almost every year.
Not a record. The EPA's own report says its 22 deletions from the Superfund list in fiscal 2018 were the most 'since FY 2005', so earlier administrations matched or beat it.
The EPA reported that 'In FY 2018, the Agency deleted all or part of 22 sites from the NPL, the largest number of deletions in one year since FY 2005' (EPA, Superfund: Transforming Communities, Accomplishments Report FY 2018, p. 18).
Claim vs. the record · Climate and energy
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- Remarks on America's environmental leadership, East Room of the White House.
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