Now entering its fourth week, the partial federal government shutdown triggered by President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall proposal could have environmental consequences and is slowing down infrastructure projects across the country.
For the time being, the shutdown has triggered the absence of most of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s pollution inspectors, according to The New York Times. “There are plants that discharge wastewater into streams and rivers, places that store hazardous chemicals in containers that could leak — we show up and test these places to see if they’re meeting pollution laws,” EPA inspector Garth Connor tells The Times. “Now there’s nobody out there to
