The Illinois Environmental Council likewise expressed its outrage: “To be clear, now is absolutely not the time to allow polluting industries to skirt environmental protection laws. This is dangerous and wildly irresponsible, especially as we’re seeing stark evidence of the burden of toxic air pollution on vulnerable populations who already struggled to breathe before this virus emerged. People will suffer. Dirty industry will benefit. Plain and simple.”
COVID-19 produces mixed results on environment
April 25, 2020
While that may be a positive for the planet, it’s coming at a cost hundreds of thousands of infected people and millions of people without